COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio colleges and universities received $7.5 million collectively, and universities are preparing to use the funds to improve campus safety. “One of the things that is kind of missing in the campus safety space is funding for physical security enhancements and really looking at physical security improvements for our schools,” Emily Torok, executive director of Ohio School Safety Center, said. Gov. Mike DeWine announced 28 schools will receive funding as part of Ohio’s Campus Safety Grant program. Ohio State received $257,000, which will be dispersed across all six campuses. At the main campus, OSU plans on trying something new. Central Ohio student sues PowerSchool over data breach “A drone will be one of those and that will help us both on and off campus here in Columbus to respond to crime more in real time,” said Monica Moll, associate vice president for public safety at Ohio State. Moll said the university already has a drone for indoor use, but this will be its first outdoor drone. She said they have been looking at different vendors and haven’t yet set a date for the debut of this technology. Moll said OSU will also invest in smaller upgrades across regional campuses. “We have classroom locks, surveillance cameras and those types of security enhancements that we're going to be using that grant for,” Moll said. The Ohio School Safety Center is tasked with deciding which schools get funding. Each school that applied had to undergo a security and vulnerability assessment. Ohio lawmakers discuss immigration following Trump executive order “They have to look at what crimes have occurred on and off their campuses and any sort of threats that they've received and how they've handled them,” said Torok. She said the most popular request this year was access control. “Public campuses are hard to lock down, if you think about it. I mean, if you've ever been to you could probably walk into a lot of the places. So that's a big focus for this year, is really making sure that the people that are on the campus are supposed to be there,” Torok said. She said while requests are now closed for these grants, the Ohio School Safety Center offers free security assessments to campuses year round. Other schools receiving funding include: Bowling Green State University - $500,000.00  Central Ohio Technical College - $236,000.00  Central State University - $299,840.00  Cincinnati State Technical & Community College - $216,000.00  Clark State College - $439,052.69  Cleveland State University - $321,500.00  Columbus State Community College - $233,160.00  Edison State Community College - $130,000.00  Hocking College - $197,308.00  Kent State University - $500,000.00  Lakeland Community College - $197,741.00  Lorain County Community College - $236,611.00  Marion Technical College - $118,000.00 Miami University - $103,539.50  North Central State College - $75,000.00  Northwest State Community College - $459,000.00  Ohio State University - $257,000.00  Ohio University - $196,665.00   Rhodes State College - $145,000.00  Shawnee State University - $449,852.69   Southern State Community College - $427,693.12  Stark State College - $59,607.00 23  Terra State Community College - $133,500.00  University of Akron - $500,000.00  University of Cincinnati - $250,000.00  University of Toledo - $225,000.00  Wright State University - $500,000.00  Youngstown State University - $92,930.00