OU Fast Facts

• Fall 2024 student population of 15,768 (12,587 undergraduate, 3,181 graduate)
• Fall 2024 first-generation students (Among First Time in Any College students) – 39%
• Incoming freshmen average GPA – 3.48
• Incoming freshmen average SAT – 1,047
  

Race/Ethnicity

• White - 67.8%
• Black or African American - 9.5%
• Asian - 6.8%
• Hispanic or Latino - 5.1%
• American Indian or Alaska Native - 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander - 0.1%
• International - 4.6%
• Multiple races - 4.4%
• Unknown - 2.2%

Geographic distribution

• Oakland County - 38.8%
• Macomb County - 33.5%
• Wayne County - 7.7%
• Genesee/Lapeer/St. Clair counties - 5.9%
• Other Michigan counties - 5.8%
• Other states - 3.6%
• Foreign countries - 4.6%

Age

• Undergraduate 
  • 15-16 - 0.1%
  • 17-22 - 73.5%
  • 23-34 - 22.7%
  • 35-44 - 2.5%
  • 45-54 - 0.9%
  • 55 plus - 0.3%
    
    
•  Graduate
  • 17-22 - 7.6%
  • 23-34 - 67.6%
  • 35-44 - 15.2%
  • 45-54 - 7.2%
  • 55 plus - 2.5%

Gender

• Female - 57.8%
• Male - 42.2%

International students

• 723

Resident Student Population

• 2,227 - 14% of total student population (2024)

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 193 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.
• Ranked 11th in the country for the percentage of women tenured/tenure-track faculty in engineering by the American Society for Engineering Education. (2015)
• 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

• 118 bachelor’s degree programs
• 136 doctoral, master’s degree and certificate programs

Full-time faculty with doctoral or terminal degrees

• 91 percent (2023)

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.

17.6:1 (2023)

• 76% of full-time undergraduate students received scholarships and grants averaging $9,603 per student in the 2023-24 academic year.
• 42% of full-time undergraduate students received need-based financial aid in the 2023-24 academic year.
• More than $1.7 million in scholarships has been awarded by the Oakland University Alumni Association to qualified OU students.

Nearly 140,000 alumni with 79% 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 – $29,097,927 (FY2024)
• Research space - 132,000 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 Evolutionary Psychological Science
• 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
• Cis Maisel Center for Judaic Studies and Community Engagement
• 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

FY2025 budget is $304.8 million.

OU endowments totaled $151.7 million as of June 2024.

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 (since July 1, 2013)
• First Division I school in Michigan to add a varsity Esports team
• Awarded to signify the Horizon League's all-sport champion, Oakland has won the James J. McCafferty Trophy seven times - four consecutive from 2014-15 through 2017-18 and three more from 2020-21 through 2023-24.
• Captured 39 Horizon League titles from 2015-24
• 39 Horizon League All-Academic or Honorable Mention student-athletes in 2023-24, representing 14 sports.