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The highly acclaimed journal of international literature, World Literature Today, is published at the University of Oklahoma.
OU is home to the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, considered to be second in prestige only to the Nobel Prize and often referred to as the “American Nobel.” Twenty–six Neustadt laureates, candidates and jurors have won the Nobel Prize in the past 38 years.
The OU Cousins program matches U.S. and international students to share informal and social experiences. Students may volunteer to live on international floors with half of the residents from the United States and half from other countries.
Dance Magazine places the OU School of Dance in the top three of all dance programs in the country.
OU's new 271-acre Research Campus is anchored by the Stephenson Research and Technology Center, where cutting-edge research into life science fields ranging from robotics to genomic studies is taking place, and the National Weather Center, which houses OU's academic and research programs in meteorology and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Norman-based weather, research and operations programs.
OU's largest supercomputer debuted as the fastest in the Big 12 and in Oklahoma history and among the top four among U.S. universities (excluding the big three National Science Foundation supercomputing centers).
Since its creation in 1998, OU’s Office of Technology Development has created 36 companies that have generated more than $75 million in capital, more than $10 million in cash and more than $30 million in current estimated equity value for the university. In addition, the companies have created in excess of 150 jobs, which pay on average nearly twice the median household income in Oklahoma.
OU’s debate team is one of the first in decades to win the tournaments at Harvard, Northwestern, and Wake Forest, in addition to the National Intercollegiate Debate Championship.
OU's College of Education continues to be ranked in the top 10 percent of all graduate colleges of education by U.S. News & World Report.
The OU College of Law attracts and admits only the very best students, and continues to set records in bar passage rates with OU graduates scoring the fifth-highest bar passage rate for first-time takers among all law schools in the nation.
A major building project has doubled the size of the Law Center, refurbishing classrooms and creating a new library, a cutting-edge courtroom, and expanded student lounge and office facilities.
OU President David Boren, a former U.S. senator and governor of Oklahoma, teaches an introductory course in political science each semester, and keeps in close touch with students.
OU has one of the oldest comprehensive colleges of fine arts in the Great Plains states, with highly regarded schools of Music, Drama, Art and Dance, and programs in opera, musical theater, and sculpture.
OU has won awards for new initiatives to create a sense of family and community on campus. OU is one of the very few public universities to twice receive the Templeton Foundation Award as a "Character Building College" for stressing the value of community.
The University of Oklahoma has consistently been designated as one of America's 100 Best College Buys by Institutional Research & Evaluation, an independent higher education research and consulting organization.
OU has established a faculty-in-residence program with faculty members and their families living in apartments in the student residence halls.
Price College is ranked as one of the nation's top business schools at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Price College ranks in U.S. News & World Report's top 50 in undergraduate business schools and in the top 15 in undergraduate business specialties for international business.
OU is one of a small number of Division I-A universities in the nation to receive the CHAMPS award for preparing student-athletes for life. The award is based on academic excellence, athletic excellence, personal development, community service and career development.

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