Record enrollment at OSU

Friday, September 24, 2010

OSU hit several enrollment milestones and welcomed its largest freshman class since 1981 this fall. OSU set a record for system-wide enrollment (35,073) and graduate student enrollment (4,981).

Enrollment by Campus (Note: students taking courses at both OSU-Stillwater and OSU-Tulsa are counted with OSU-Stillwater numbers)

OSU-Stillwater                               21,419
OSU-Tulsa                                      1,759
Veterinary Health Sciences           344
OSU-Oklahoma City                     7,647
OSU-Institute of Technology        3,226
OSU-Center for Health Sciences  678
TOTAL                                            35,073

Enrollment Highlights

• Stillwater/OSU-Tulsa enrollment – 23,522, up 677 from last year
• Stillwater/OSU-Tulsa graduate student enrollment -- 4,981, all-time high
• Freshman class -- 3,554, up 13% from last year
• Average ACT of freshman class – 25.2, all time high
• 514 freshmen with 4.0 high school GPA, most of any public research university in state
• Students in freshman class come from 40 states and 25 countries
• More than 23% of freshman class (826) are Native American, African American, Hispanic, Asian American or international students
• Freshman class includes 643 first-generation students
• 70% of freshmen from Oklahoma; one in five (484) are first-generation students
• 125 countries represented across entire student body