The university has nationally recognized programs and research facilities in the natural and social sciences, education, arts, business, health and wellness, humanities and applied technologies.

[7] The commission examined population within a 25-mile (40.2 km) radius of each community, along with railroad and transportation infrastructure, the moral atmosphere, health and sanitary conditions and site suitability.

The university began to invite notable guests to campus during the 1917–1918 semester, including the Zoellner Quartet, and the Ben Greet Shakespearean Players.

[6] The Student Protest Committee coordinated with the faculty and administration to organize a campus rally and march through the downtown Bowling Green.

Members of the Protest Committee then launched a letter-writing campaign to community leaders throughout northwest Ohio, which helped convince the state legislature that closing the school would be counterproductive.

[26] The university continued expanding facilities including its first student union, The Falcon's Nest, and new cottage-style dorms for social groups and learning-living communities, and dedication of the Wood County airport.

[28] The programs offered students a path to a Navy commission, enrolling cadets in regular college courses as well as naval training.

[32] In 1946, the university added 15 steel buildings to house male students in an area near the football stadium that became known as "Tin Pan Alley".

[41][42] The majority of student activism at BGSU was peaceful and Bowling Green was the only public college or university in Ohio to reopen in the spring of 1970, following the Kent State shootings during anti-war protests.

[55] In 1985, Ronald Reagan became the seventh president or president-elect to visit the university after Warren G. Harding, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.

Hanna Hall housed "The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Film Theater and Gallery" prior to its renovation as the Maurer Center.

The protest was signed by over 50 film industry figures, including actors Dame Helen Mirren, James Earl Jones, Malcolm McDowell, and Lauren Hutton, and directors George Stevens Jr., Peter Bogdanovich, Bertrand Tavernier, Joe Dante, and Martin Scorsese.

Other facilities include Falcon Outfitters, convenience store, computer labs, meeting rooms, a 250-seat movie theater, ballrooms, and various student lounges.

[97] The BGSU campus police station as well as counseling services are located in the College Park Office Building on the southern edge.

[112] North of the center lies Perry Field House, a 127,000 sq ft (12,000 m2) athletic facility with a 100 x 60 indoor synthetic turf, four batting cages, and a 200-meter track encircling four courts for basketball, volleyball, or tennis.

[115] The Eppler complex is the oldest building on campus for athletics and is the main practice area for cheerleading, gymnastics, dancing and fencing.

BGSU Firelands is a non-residential, commuter school that offers associate degrees and prepares students for transfer to bachelor's programs or for entry into the job market in technical or paraprofessional areas.

[127] First offered in 1946 in the Sandusky area and later expanded to serve Erie, Huron, Lorain, and Ottawa counties, extension programs established a foundation for BGSU Firelands, the university's regional campus.

In addition, BGSU continues to have one of the top four programs in the United States for Industrial & Organizational Psychology per U.S. News & World Report.

[154] In 1979, American author James Baldwin taught at BGSU for one quarter as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department, after a month-long stint as writer in residence in 1978.

Football coach Urban Meyer went on to great success at the University of Florida, earning two BCS National Championship Game appearances in a three-year span, winning in 2007 and 2009.

Women's club sports include rugby, cross country/track and field, Lacrosse, soccer, softball, equestrian, figure skating, and gymnastics.

[179][180] In 2012 Bowling Green redesigned its undergraduate curriculum, creating an interdisciplinary program known as the BGeXperience (BGeX),[181] that places a focus on personal growth and development, social connections, critical thinking, problem solving and diversity.

[183] In August 2008 the program introduced the Freshman Wilderness Experience, which couples a week-long backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail with a monthly class to assist students in transitioning from high school to college life.

[186] In BGSU's residential learning communities, students with similar interests, majors, cultural connections, and goals live and study together.

[189] In 2021, Bowling Green student Stone Foltz died as a result of alcohol poisoning at the Delta Beta chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity.

[159] The group is characterized by their use of gray jumpsuits and masks of famous pop culture and political figures to hide their identities, which are not revealed until the last home basketball game of their senior year.

Alumni of Bowling Green State University have become notable in a variety of different fields including politics and government, business, science, literature, arts and entertainment, and athletics.

A number of Bowling Green Falcons have excelled at the collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels sports, including: Kevin Bieksa,[215] Rob Blake,[216] Dan Bylsma,[217] Scott Hamilton,[207] Dave Wottle, Orel Hershiser,[218] Mike McCullough,[219] George McPhee,[220] Ken Morrow,[221] Don Nehlen,[222] Jordan Sigalet,[223] Nate Thurmond,[224] and Mark Wells.

[227] Other notable alumni include: explorer Conrad Allen; author Philana Marie Boles;[228] TCU chancellor Victor J. Boschini;[229] actor Tim Conway;[230] former ESPN sportscaster Jay Crawford;[231]CBS News Correspondent Steve Hartman;[232] ESPN sportscaster Jason Jackson;[233] NHL Network host Steve Mears;[234] Adobe Systems president and CEO Shantanu Narayen;[235] Owens Corning CEO Brian Chambers, actress Eva Marie Saint;[236] Adena Williams Loston, president of St. Philip's College, Sri Lankan Entrepreneur and animal welfare advocate, Otara Gunewardene, author James Carlos Blake, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize;[237] Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Jeff Strand;[238] and Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Jennifer Higdon.