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unitid 207500 · Norman, OK · public 4-year · suburb (midsize)

University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus

Public university in Norman, Oklahoma, US

founded
1890
enrollment 2023
31,908
predominant degree
Bachelor's
website
ou.edu
Campus of University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus

Andrew Goidell · CC BY 2.5

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 2024, the university had 34,523 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. wikipedia rev 1364128863 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

77%

38th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

22,734

90th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

25%

undergrads on Pell grants

28th pctl among public 4-years

completion

75%

finish within 150% time

93rd pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$28,872

85th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$15,300

after aid, aided students

67th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$63,126

after entry, Title IV students

80th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$20,654

61st pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $10,509 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    21%
  • 30-48k
    16%
  • 48-75k
    16%
  • 75-110k
    15%
  • 110k+
    31%
Median family income
$50,976
First-generation students
28%
In-state tuition & fees
$9,797

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.1× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Marketing.347$82,855$21,500
Human Resources Management and Services.330$70,863$24,375
Psychology, General.322$53,516$21,700
Social Work.301$60,371—
Finance and Financial Management Services.244$87,608$19,550
Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies.242——
Zoology/Animal Biology.228$64,096$23,375
Journalism.224$57,281$24,250
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.203$55,641$27,000
Business Administration, Management and Operations.193$137,986—
Human Resources Management and Services.186$61,030—
Accounting and Related Services.182$90,317$20,500

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 2,781 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsbasketball player (550) · researcher (464) · American football player (292) · politician (195) · university teacher (169) · lawyer (112) · writer (66) · baseball player (52)

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built 2026-07-17

Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364128863), CC BY-SA 4.0.