OU Fast Facts

• Fall 2025 student population of 15,979 (12,770 undergraduate, 3,209 graduate)
• Fall 2025 first-generation students (Among First Time in Any College students) – 40%
• Incoming freshmen average GPA – 3.47
• Incoming freshmen average SAT – 1,033
  

Race/Ethnicity

• White - 65.5%
• Black or African American - 10.5%
• Asian - 7.0%
• Hispanic or Latino - 6.1%
• American Indian or Alaska Native - 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander - 0.1%
• International - 4.0%
• Multiple races - 4.2%
• Unknown - 2.5%

Geographic distribution

• Oakland County - 39.0%
• Macomb County - 33.6%
• Wayne County - 8.2%
• Genesee/Lapeer/St. Clair counties - 5.9%
• Other Michigan counties - 5.5%
• Other states - 3.6%
• Foreign countries - 4.0%

Age

• Undergraduate 
  • 15-16 - 0.2%
  • 17-22 - 75.0%
  • 23-34 - 21.3%
  • 35-44 - 2.5%
  • 45-54 - 0.7%
  • 55 plus - 0.3%
    
    
•  Graduate
  • 17-22 - 7.4%
  • 23-34 - 66.7%
  • 35-44 - 15.6%
  • 45-54 - 7.8%
  • 55 plus - 2.4%

Gender

• Female - 58.5%
• Male - 41.5%

International students

• 644

Resident Student Population

• 2,316 - 14.5% 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 195 business schools of about 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 and undergraduate certificate programs
• 132 doctoral, master’s degree and graduate certificate programs

Full-time faculty with doctoral or terminal degrees

• 94 percent (2024)

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 about 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 (2024)

• 81% of full-time undergraduate students received scholarships and grants averaging $10,748 per student in the 2024-25 academic year.
• 47% of full-time undergraduate students received need-based financial aid in the 2024-25 academic year.
• More than $1.7 million in scholarships has been awarded by the Oakland University Alumni Association to qualified OU students.

About 140,000 alumni with 80 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
• OU’s Native American Heritage Site is an educational site dedicated to the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples.

Noted centers

• Adult Career Counseling Center
• Augmented Reality Center
• 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 Cybersecurity
• 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
• Lowry Center for Early Childhood Education
• Michigan Center for Undergraduate Research (MCUR)
• Oakland University INCubator (OU INC)
• Pawley Lean Institute
• Prevention Research Center

• Oakland West Center is located at 1500 University Drive, just two miles west of the main campus
• Oakland University offers high-quality bachelor's and master's degree programs at the Macomb University Center in Clinton Township.

FY2025 budget is $318.1 million.

• Completed largest fundraising campaign in OU history,
  surpassing $150M goal ahead of schedule, with nearly 20,000
  unique donors and more than 12,000 first time donors.
• OU endowments totaled $174.1 million as of August 2025.
  
  

OU's economic impact in Michigan was $1.9 billion in FY2024.

• 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 43 Horizon League titles from 2015-25
• 35 Horizon League All-Academic or Honorable Mention student-athletes in 2024-25, representing 10 sports.