University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus
University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus is located in Norman, Oklahoma. It is a public, 4-year or above institution.
From Wikipedia: The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. 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 2023, the university had 32,676 students enrolled, most at its main campus in Norman. Employing nearly 4,000 faculty members, the university offers 174 baccalaureate programs, 199 master’s programs, 101 doctoral programs, and 88 certificate programs. The university is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity”, with over $416 million in research expenditures across its three campuses in 2022. 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 of Oklahoma has won 44 team national championships, ranking the Sooners 13th all-time in NCAA team titles. OU also ranks 7th all-time in the number of NCAA Academic All-Americans with 215 athletes. The women’s softball team has won the national championship eight times: in 2000, 2013, and consecutively in 2016 and 2017 and in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. The gymnastics teams have won a combined 18 national championships, with the men’s team winning eight in the last 15 years, including three consecutive titles from 2015 to 2017. Beginning with the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Sooners have made 90 appearances at the Olympics and collected 23 medals in total.
Notes
These are items that bear looking into more closely.
- This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 76.1%, so approximately 1/5 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.
Overview of institution
This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.
Institution kind: Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
Undergrad program: Balanced arts & sciences/professions, high graduate coexistence
Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Comprehensive programs, no medical/veterinary school
Enrollment profile: High undergraduate (see more details below)
Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $22,601 (1.2 times the equivalent cost of Harvard).
Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.
Size and setting: Four-year, large, primarily residential
In state percentage: 53% of first year students come from Oklahoma
In US percentage: 98% of first year students come from the US
Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 76.1% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)
Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 53.3%
Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 18.5 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]
Student to faculty ratio: 13.2 (undergrads to all faculty)
Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice
Schedule: Semester
Institution provides on campus housing: Yes
Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 6417 students
Freshmen required to live on campus: No
Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes
Disabilities: 4.15 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.
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Comparisons
The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.
- University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Texas Tech University, Oklahoma State University-Main Campus, Iowa State University, University of Kansas
- University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Virginia-Main Campus, The University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus, University of California-Irvine, University of California-San Diego, Texas A & M University-College Station, University of Washington-Seattle Campus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of California-Davis, Ohio State University-Main Campus, University of Maryland-College Park, Purdue University-Main Campus, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Stony Brook University, Indiana University-Bloomington, University of Missouri-Columbia, Michigan State University, University at Buffalo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Iowa, University of Arizona, University of Oregon, West Virginia University, Kansas State University
- These institutions compare themselves to University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus, but not vice versa: Brigham Young University, Florida State University, Auburn University, University of South Carolina-Columbia, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, University of Houston, University of Arkansas, The University of Alabama, Temple University, University of North Texas, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach, The University of Texas at Dallas, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Kent State University at Kent, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott, University of Mississippi, Northern Arizona University, University of New Mexico-Main Campus, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide, University of Memphis, CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Claremont Graduate University
Enrollment
General
Teaching
Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.
Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.
Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.
Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.
Geography
This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated. The goal is to neutrally provide information: for example, some individuals want stringent gun control in an area, some want the opposite: the categories are meant to be descriptive.
Financial Aid
Graduation
Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).
Library
Libraries are changing rapidly. Note that how institutions count digital collections may vary.
Diversity
The US Census Bureau has a diversity index that goes from 0 to 1. In their words, “A 0-value indicates that everyone in the population has the same racial and ethnic characteristics. A value close to 1 indicates that everyone in the population has different racial and ethnic characteristics.” This uses their formula, but with the resolution available for the federal IPEDS data (which does not separate for a given demographic group whether members identify as Hispanic or not). This metric is about heterogeneity within the population, not the proportion of the population that comes from historically excluded groups.
Following the practice of the census, the index is multiplied by 100 to give the percentage probability a random pair of individuals will have a different background. Most institutions argue that diversity is a benefit, so by default a higher number is listed as better, but there may be cases where this measure does not reflect the mission of a college (for example, 70% of the students at a tribal college or university may be American Indian: that could be low-scoring by this metric but should not be read as “bad” given the institution’s mission).
These numbers are based on the most recent year available, generally 2023, which predates effects of the US Supreme Court’s striking down of affirmative action. This has often changed, sometimes dramatically, the incoming student demographics at some institutions.
Overall diversity
Freshman profile
Demographic data for first time degree-seeking students. Note that this uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.
Freshman geography
Test scores
SAT scores
ACT scores
Majors
This presents information on the number of majors and the median earnings one and five years after graduation for people who got a degree from this institution in that field. The earnings are for those who are working and not enrolled in further education. The earnings data (from the federal college scorecard) also has information on earnings for those categorized as ‘MALE’ and ‘NOMALE’ – for readability, these are recategorized here as “Men” and “Women”, respectively, which adopts the gender binary used in other federal data. “W/M earnings ratio” is the median earnings of women divided by men, as a percentage.