The University of Oklahoma is a major, national research university serving the educational, cultural and economic needs of the state, region and nation. Created by the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature in 1890, the university has 18 colleges offering 121 areas for undergraduate study; 111 areas for master's degrees; doctoral programs in 71 fields; and professional degrees in law, law/business administration, medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. OU enrolls more than 24,000 students on campuses in Norman, Oklahoma City and Tulsa and has approximately 1,500 full-time faculty members. The university's annual operating budget is in excess of $487 million. For the seventh consecutive year, in 1994-95, the university established a new record of more than $110.3 million in external funding for research, training and public service.
Colleges housed on the Norman campus are University College, the Graduate College, the colleges of architecture, arts and sciences, business administration, education, engineering, fine arts, geosciences, law and liberal studies. The Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City is the state's major training facility for all health care professionals and consists of six professional colleges- medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, allied health, public health-and the Graduate College.
Other research centers associated with the Norman campus include the Biological Station at Lake Texoma; the Oklahoma Climatological, Biological, Geological and Archaeological surveys; the Aquatic Biological Fisheries Research Center; and the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms. Since 1989, through a matching program developed by the State of Oklahoma, the university has created a total of 109 endowed chairs and professorships on the Norman campus and at the Health Sciences Center. More information is available on the University of Oklahoma WWW home page.
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