About ORU

• ORU is located on 263 acres in scenic south Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• The campus has 23 major buildings.
• ORU offers 63 undergraduate majors, 14 master’s programs, and two doctoral degrees.
• ORU’s largest majors are pastoral Christian ministry, mass media communications, business administration, psychology, biology, and nursing; the largest department is business.
• ORU is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
• ORU is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), the Oklahoma Independent Colleges and Universities (OICU), and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC).
• ORU has an affiliation agreement with Livets Ord University in Uppsala, Sweden.
• The number of for-credit students served for spring 2008 is 3,082.
• Students represent 49 states and 61 countries.
• The top five states for student enrollment are Oklahoma, Texas, California, Florida, and Illinois.
• The male-to-female ratio is 43:57.
• Since 1965, ORU students have come from more than 120 countries.
• Current student-to-teacher ratio is 14:1.
• More than 50 percent of undergraduate faculty and 100 percent of graduate faculty hold terminal degrees.
• ORU has 191 full-time and 101 part-time faculty members.
• ORU has more than 22,000 graduates worldwide and a total alumni population of almost 38,000.
• Golden Eagle athletes participate in eight NCAA Division I men’s and women’s varsity sports: baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, volleyball, track, cross-country, and soccer.