by our College Data Analytics Team
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Oklahoma State University - Main Campus was awarded 416 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general education.
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College Factual ranked OSU as #227 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when OSU held the #261 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 32 colleges in Oklahoma, OSU is ranked at #2.
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The acceptance rate at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is a competitive 68%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 20% of students accepted to OSU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 530 and 630. Math scores were between 520 and 620.
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The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Oklahoma State University - Main Campus, this ratio is 18 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is 89%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Oklahoma State University - Main Campus has a freshmen retention rate of 83%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at OSU for first-time, full-time students is 41%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 20,323 undergraduates at OSU with 17,624 being full-time and 2,699 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8,609 | $8,990 | $14,127 | $18,322 | $20,939 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of OSU, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At OSU, approximately 44% of students took out student loans averaging $6,856 a year. That adds up to $27,424 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at OSU is 2.7%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for OSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 107 Whitehurst, Stillwater, OK 74078-1015 |
| Phone: | 405-744-5000 |
| Website: | www.okstate.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oklahoma-State-University/39013362306 |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/okstate |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 437 | $41,977 |
| Marketing | 321 | $41,568 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 263 | $31,269 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 256 | $63,076 |
| Animal Science | 207 | $32,233 |
| Accounting | 194 | $53,665 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 187 | $51,747 |
| General Psychology | 184 | $29,274 |
| Agricultural Economics & Business | 180 | $43,523 |
| Computer Information Systems | 136 | $54,316 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2020-2021, 12,834 students took at least one online class at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. This is a decrease from the 21,517 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 12,834 | 2,653 |
| 2019-2020 | 21,517 | 6,065 |
| 2018-2019 | 10,182 | 1,670 |
| 2017-2018 | 9,808 | 1,618 |
| 2016-2017 | 9,631 | 1,424 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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