Oklahoma's highest ranked college at your service
For 18 years running, U.S. New and World Report has ranked OBU higher than any other college in the state.
We are a private, Christian liberal arts university which welcomes students from diverse religious backgrounds to our campus in Shawnee, Okla., a small city located just 30 minutes away from Oklahoma City. We encourage students to develop a mature faith, and to discover their calling in the context of a curriculum that welcomes healthy debate and fosters critical and creative skills.
Ours is a global community -- we have students from 20 other countries -- and we stress international study, global service-learning and mission experiences.
We invite you to explore this web site or, even better, to visit our pretty campus. To set up a visit, contact us at 405-878-2033 or 800-654-3285.
In the meantime, here are some extra details:
Programs: 10 bachelor's degrees in 84 areas of study
Two master's degrees (business administration and nursing education), offered at OBU's Graduate School, 111 N. Harrison, Oklahoma City.
Enrollment: 1,871 from 39 states and 20 other countries (Fall 2011)
Faculty: 113 faculty members, all are active Christians
Student to Faculty Ratio: 15:1
National Rankings:
OBU has been ranked as the only Oklahoma college or university on U.S.News & World Report’s annual ranking of “Great Schools, Great Prices” for 2012. OBU also has been listed as Oklahoma’s highest-ranked college in “Best Regional Colleges” for the 18th consecutive year. OBU has made the news magazine’s “top 10” in its category for 20 consecutive years.
For the seventh consecutive year, OBU has been named one of the best colleges and universities in the western United States by The Princeton Review.
For the fourth year in a row, OBU is the highest-ranked university in Oklahoma in the latest Forbes.com listing of "America’s Best Colleges."
