About Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma City University (OCU) is a private university circles historically affiliated past the United Methodist Church and located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The university circles offers undergraduate bachelor’s degrees, graduate master’s degrees and doctoral degrees, organized into eight colleges and schools and one Methodist seminary. Students can major in over 70 undergraduate majors, 20 graduate degrees, including a JD, MBA and PhD in Nursing, and an Adult Studies Program for on the go adults to earn a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree. The academic circles has nearly 3,000 students, including 1,200 graduate students. The official assistant professor and energetic colors are blue and white.

Oklahoma City (/oʊkləˌhoʊmə -/ (listen)), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often condensed to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county chair of Oklahoma County, it ranks 25th in the course of United States cities in population, and is the 11th largest city in the South. The population grew subsequent to the 2010 census and is estimated to have reached 655,057 as of July 2019. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,396,445, and the Oklahoma City–Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,469,124, making it Oklahoma’s largest municipality and metropolitan area by population.

Oklahoma City’s city limits extend somewhat into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outdoor the core Oklahoma County area are suburban tracts or protected rural zones (watershed). The city is the eighth-largest in the United States by area including consolidated city-counties; it is the second-largest, after Houston, not including consolidated cities.

Oklahoma City has one of the world’s largest livestock markets. Oil, natural gas, petroleum products and connected industries are its economy’s largest sector. The city is in the center of an responsive oil arena and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal giving out employs a large number of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation’s Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (which house offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department’s Enterprise Service Center, respectively).

Oklahoma City is on the I-35 Corridor, one of the primary travel corridors south into next to Texas and Mexico and north towards Wichita and Kansas City. Located in the state’s Frontier Country region, the city’s northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889 and grew to a population of more than 10,000 within hours of its founding. It was the scene of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died, the deadliest terror violence in U.S. history until the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the deadliest exploit of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Since weather chronicles have been kept, Oklahoma City has been struck by 13 violent tornadoes, 11 of which were rated F4 or EF4 upon the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales, and two F5 or EF5.