Oakland earned 84 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 0 in the top 1%, 12 in the top 5%, 31 in the top 10% and 41 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #3 of 105 in Best Value for Industrial Engineering, a top 5% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 84 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 0 / 12
Highest placement: #3 of 105, a top 5% award
Fields of study with a badge: 16
Placements this edition: 320
Badge cutoff: a top 15% placement in a ranking
Source: IPEDS 2025; College Scorecard July 2026; College Factual rankings 2027. Data as of: July 2026.
How Many Ranking Badges Has Oakland University Earned?
Oakland University holds 84 ranking badges across 16 fields of study, 12 of them in the top 5% or better; each badge is an award for placing in the top 15% of a ranking. Each ranking is recalculated when updated data becomes available. The awards below are from the 2027 edition. This page indicates the top award category achieved for this year. Read about our data sources and methodologies. To use these badges in your college’s communications, administrators can contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
0
Top 5%
12
Top 10%
31
Top 15%
41
Total
84
What Is Oakland University Known For?
Oakland University is best known for Engineering: 8 of its 57 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Industrial Engineering, Other Health Professions and Physiology & Pathology Sciences.
Oakland University earned no athletics badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s sports rankings is #291 of 933 in Basketball (top 32%).
How Does Oakland University Rank for Online Students?
In College Factual’s 2027 online-program rankings, Oakland University earned 1 badge across 1 online program; its highest placement is #31 of 510 in Most Popular Online for Nursing.
In College Factual’s 2027 veterans rankings, Oakland University earned 26 badges, 1 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #145 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
Badges on this page come from rankings calculated from federal education data, 2027 edition. Oakland University appears in 320 of the College Factual rankings covered on this page.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), serves as the core of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team