The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a public research university in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two Territories became the state of Oklahoma. In Fall 2022, the university had 29,705 students enrolled, most at its main campus in Norman. Employing nearly 3,000 faculty members, the school offers 152 baccalaureate programs, 160 master’s programs, 75 doctorate programs, and 20 majors at the first professional level.
The university is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity”. According to the National Science Foundation, OU spent $283 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 82nd in the nation. Its Norman campus has two prominent museums, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, specializing in French Impressionism and Native American artwork, and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, specializing in the natural history of Oklahoma.
The university has won multiple national championships in multiple sports, including seven football national championships and two NCAA Division I baseball championships. The women’s softball team has won the national championship six times: in 2000, 2013, and consecutively in 2016 and 2017 and in 2021 and 2022. The gymnastics teams have won a combined 11 national championships since 2002, with the men’s team winning eight in the last 15 years, including three consecutive titles from 2015 to 2017.
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University of Oklahoma is ranked #127 out of 443 National Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence.
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- A HI-Art History
- A T-Art and Technology
- ACCT-Accounting
- AERO-Aerospace Studies
- AFAM-African & African American Studies
- AGSC-Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences
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- AME-Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
- AMGT-Arts Management
- ANTH-Anthropology
- ARAB-Arabic
- ARCH-Architecture
- ARNM-Art for Non-Majors
- ART-Art
- ARTC-Art Theory & Criticism
- ARTH-Art Therapy
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- B AD-Business Administration
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- EMAD-Executive MBA Aerospace & Defense
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- SRRE-Music Recitals
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- VIOL-Violin
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- WGS-Women’s & Gender Studies