About Oakland City University

Oakland City University (OCU) is a private university circles affiliated considering the General Baptist Church and located in Oakland City, Indiana. It is the solitary General Baptist Church-affiliated university or university in the United States. Founded in 1885, it has slowly grown to the gift student enrollment of about 1,200 upon the main campus and, counting anything sites, about 2,000 total. OCU’s athletics teams, known as the Oaks, play in the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the River States Conference.

In supplement to the institution’s Oakland City main campus, the university has satellite campuses in Evansville, Indianapolis, Rockport and Bedford. The Bedford branch is housed in the former headquarters of the Indiana Limestone Company. These sites utilize the adult learning model that emphasizes experiential application to objectives and theory. Students from a broad age range attend OCU. Courses are provided in an accelerated pace and shortened format, much in the same way as how summer scholastic operates in more time-honored programs. Students may accept one or two courses at a time and enroll as full-time.

Oakland City is the second-largest city in Gibson County, Indiana, United States, after the city of Princeton. It is the home of Oakland City University. The population was 2,429 at the 2010 census.