OU Fast Facts

• Fall 2021 student population of 17,170 (13,771 undergraduate, 3,399 graduate)
• Fall 2021 first-generation students (Among First Time in Any College students) – 33.4 percent
• Incoming freshmen average GPA – 3.51
• Incoming freshmen average ACT score – 24.9
• Incoming freshmen average SAT – 1,104
  

Race/Ethnicity

• Caucasian - 69.2 percent
• Black or African American - 7.9 percent
• Asian - 6.1 percent
• Hispanic or Latino - 4.4 percent
• American Indian or Alaska Native - 0.2 percent
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander - 0.1 percent
• International - 4.6 percent
• Multiple or Unreported - 7.5 percent

Geographic distribution

• Oakland County - 38.8 percent
• Macomb County - 32.1 percent
• Wayne County - 6.9 percent
• Genesee/Lapeer/St. Clair counties - 6.7 percent
• Other Michigan counties - 7.3 percent
• Other states - 3.4 percent
• Foreign countries - 4.6 percent 

Age

• Undergraduate 
  • 15-16 - 0.1 percent
  • 17-22 - 72.9 percent
  • 23-34 - 23.3 percent
  • 35-44 - 2.2 percent
  • 45-54 - 1.0 percent
  • 55 plus - 0.4 percent
    
    
•  Graduate
  • 17-22 - 5.4 percent
  • 23-34 - 70.6 percent
  • 35-44 - 14.6 percent
  • 45-54 - 7.4 percent
  • 55 plus - 1.9 percent

Gender

• Female - 58 percent
• Male - 42 percent

International students

• 785

Resident Student Population

• 1,982 - 12 percent of total student population (2021)

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)
• Oakland University's School of Nursing ranks #78 nationally by the Nursing Schools almanac in its 2022 rankings of the best nursing schools.

Academic programs

• 127 bachelor’s degree programs
• 119 doctoral, master’s degree and certificate programs

Full-time faculty with doctoral degrees

• 85 percent (2021)

Full-time faculty with terminal degrees

• 91 percent (2021)

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.

17:1 (2021)

• 75 percent of full-time undergraduate students received scholarships and grants averaging $8,109 per student in the 2020-21 academic year.
• 43 percent of full-time undergraduate students received need-based financial aid in the 2020-21 academic year.
• More than $1.4 million in scholarships has been awarded by the Oakland University Alumni Association to qualified OU students.

More than 131,000 alumni with 76 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 – $16,109,977 (FY2021)
• Research space - 118,214 sq. ft. 

Noted research centers

• Automotive Tribology Center (ATC)
• Barry M. Klein Center for Culture and Globalization
• 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 Center (ERC)
• 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

FY2022 budget is approximately $338 million.

OU endowments totaled approximately $147 million as of June 2021.

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 and 2021-2022
• Captured 26 Horizon League titles from 2015-21
• Led the Horizon League in Academic Honor Roll selections each semester from 2013-18, and spring semester 2019