OU Fast Facts

• Fall 2020 student population of 18,552 (15,100 undergraduate, 3,452 graduate)
• Fall 2020 first-generation students (Among First Time in Any College students) – 37 percent
• Incoming freshmen average GPA – 3.52
• Incoming freshmen average ACT score – 24
• Incoming freshmen average SAT – 1,101
  

Race/Ethnicity

• Caucasian - 73.1 percent
• African American - 8.3 percent
• Asian - 6.0 percent
• Hispanic - 4.4 percent
• Native American - 0.2 percent
• Native Hawaiian - 0.1 percent
• International - 4.6 percent
• Multiple or Unreported - 3.3

Geographic distribution

• Oakland County - 39.4 percent
• Macomb County - 31.6 percent
• Wayne County - 6.8 percent
• Genesee/Lapeer/St. Clair counties - 6.7 percent
• Other Michigan counties - 7.9 percent
• Other states - 3.2 percent
• Foreign countries - 4.4 percent 

Age

• Undergraduate 
  • 15-16 - 0.1 percent
  • 17-22 - 72.6 percent
  • 23-34 - 23.8 percent
  • 35-44 - 2.2 percent
  • 45-54 - 0.9 percent
  • 55 plus - 0.3 percent
    
    
•  Graduate
  • 17-22 - 6.3 percent
  • 23-34 - 70.8 percent
  • 35-44 - 13.6 percent
  • 45-54 - 7.0 percent
  • 55 plus - 2.3 percent

Gender

• Female - 57 percent
• Male - 43 percent

International students

• 818

Resident Student Population

• 3,052 - 16 percent of total student population (2019)

Recognition

• OU moved up to the second-highest tier of research universities in the 2018 Carnegie Classification
• Oakland’s business school is one of only 186 business schools of 16,000 worldwide to earn AACSB international accreditation for both business and accounting programs.
• Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB) holds full accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, meeting the standards that lead to the M.D. degree.
• Nurse Anesthesia program is ranked 18th out of 112 U.S. graduate programs in nursing-anesthesia, according to U.S. News & World Report. (2016)

Academic programs

• 146 bachelor’s degree programs
• 134 doctoral, master’s degree and certificate programs

Full-time faculty with doctoral degrees

• 86 percent (2019)

Full-time faculty with terminal degrees

• 92 percent (2019)

Transforming health care education

• OUWB admitted its charter class in fall 2011 and welcomes 125 new medical students to campus every August for a total enrollment of nearly 500 students.
• The Human Health Building opened in fall 2012 to house the schools of Nursing and Health Sciences, and offers modern laboratories, research facilities and clinical spaces.

19:1 (2019)

• 75 percent of full-time undergraduate students received scholarships and grants averaging $8,368 per student in the 2019-20 academic year.
• 44 percent of full-time undergraduate students received need-based financial aid in the 2019-20 academic year.
• More than $1.3 million in scholarships has been awarded by the Oakland University Alumni Association to qualified OU students.

More than 122,000 alumni with 75 percent living in Michigan.

• 1,443 acres of wooded hills and meadows
• More than 50 major buildings
• Six co-ed residence halls, two student apartment complexes and four Greek cottages
• State-of-the-art recreation center and athletic dome.
• Home to OU Art Gallery, Meadow Brook Hall, Meadow Brook Theatre and Meadow Brook Amphitheatre

• Total Awards – $23,460,407 (FY2020)
• Research space - 118,214 sq. ft. 

Noted research centers

• Automotive Tribology Center (ATC)
• Center for Applied Research in Musical Understanding (CARMU)
• Center for Autism
• Center for Biomedical Research
• Center for Civic Engagement
• Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics
• Center for Integrated Business and Research Education (CIBRE)
• Center for Public Humanities
• Center for Religious Understanding (CRU)
• Center for Robotics and Advanced Automation (CRAA)
• Center for Social and Behavioral Research
• Clean Energy Research Center (CERC)
• Eye Research Institute (ERI)
• Fastening and Joining Research Institute (FAJRI)
• Galileo Institute for Teacher Leadership
• Institute for Spintronic and Microwave Technology
• Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (lSCRM)
• Ken Morris Center for the Study of Labor and Work
• Macomb-OU INCubator (MAC-OU INC)
• Michigan Center for Undergraduate Research (MCUR)
• Oakland University INCubator (OU INC)
• Prevention Research Center
• Reading Recovery Center of Michigan
• Southeast Michigan Economic Data Center

FY2021 budget is approximately $347 million.

OU endowments totaled approximately $109 million as of June 2020.

OU contributed nearly $1 billion to the region's economy in the 2019 fiscal year.

• 18 NCAA Division I men’s and women’s varsity sports programs
• Member of the Horizon League
• First Division I school in Michigan to add a varsity Esports team 
• Won the McCafferty Trophy from 2014-18
• Captured 20 Horizon League titles from 2015-18
• Led the Horizon League in Academic Honor Roll selections for 10 consecutive semesters from 2013-18