 The main academic and residential campus is located on the northeast side of Bowling Green . The campus is arranged in a rectangle roughly one and a half miles long and one mile wide . It includes over 116 buildings on 1 @,@ 338 acres ( 5 @.@ 41 km2 ) . The campus is bordered by Wooster Street to the south , Thurstin Avenue to the west , Poe Road to the north , and I @-@ 75 to the east . The university also owns buildings and parking lots throughout Bowling Green and the Bowling Green Research Enterprise Park just east of I @-@ 75 . Ridge Street and East Merry Street run east @-@ west through campus and Mercer Street bisects campus on a north @-@ south axis . 
