For incoming first-year students, Ohio State will host a variety of events throughout Welcome Week to celebrate the arrival of thousands of new Buckeyes on campus. Welcome Week for the ‘26-‘27 academic year will take place from Friday, August 21 through Monday, August 31. Saturday, August 22nd:WestFest (Lincoln Tower Fields & Women’s Field House)This Welcome Week event will serve as a celebratory commencement of the week’s campus-based festivities. From 4 to 7 p.m., over 800 student-founded campus organizations, campus departments, and local nonprofits will line the South and Main Ovals with individual booths. Hundreds of Buckeyes will be walking through West Campus as they scope out the landscape of the festival.