About East Central University

East Central University (ECU or East Central) is a public university in Ada, Oklahoma. It is ration of Oklahoma’s Regional University System. Beyond its flagship campus in Ada, the university circles has courses easy to attain to in McAlester, Shawnee, and Durant, as competently as online courses. Founded as East Central State Normal School in 1909, its present name was adopted in 1985. Some of its more prominent alumni put in former Microsoft COO B. Kevin Turner, Modernist painter Leon Polk Smith, former NFL player Mark Gastineau, past governors Robert S. Kerr and George Nigh, former U.S. Representative Lyle Boren, Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Tom Colbert, and U.S. Army General James D. Thurman.

ECU is approximately 90 miles from Oklahoma City, 115 miles from Tulsa and 150 miles from Dallas. Today the campus consists of 37 buildings on 135 acres; the the academy typically enrolls exceeding 3,500 students per semester from beyond 30 countries and 25 states

Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 16,810 at the 2010 census, an mass of 7.1 percent from the figure of 15,691 in 2000. The city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of an prematurely settler, and was incorporated in 1901. Ada is home to East Central University, and is the headquarters of the Chickasaw Nation.

Ada is an Oklahoma Main Street City, an Oklahoma Certified City, and a Tree City USA member.