Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a public four-year institution located in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA (United States), about 20 miles south of Toledo, Ohio on I-75. The institution was granted a charter in 1910 by the State of Ohio as part of the Lowry bill, which also established Kent State University. For the 2007–2008 academic year BGSU has a student body of around 23,000, of which 3,000 are graduate students.

BGSU offers over 200 undergraduate programs (Undergraduate education), as well as various masters and doctoral degrees.

Housed within the School of Communication Studies (Communication Studies) is the national and international award-winning Falcon Forensics, Speech and Debate Team, established in 1919. BGSU is home of the national literary journal Mid-American Review, which publishes new works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and which also sponsors Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing each November.