Oklahoma State University was founded on December 25, 1890, as Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, just twenty months after the Land Run of 1889. When the first students assembled for class on December 14, 1891, there were no buildings, no books, and no curriculum.
In 1894, two and one-half years after classes began in local churches, 144 students moved into the first academic building, later known as Old Central, on the southeast corner of campus. In 1896, Oklahoma A&M; held its first commencement with six male graduates.
On July 1, 1957, Oklahoma A&M College became Oklahoma State University. Technical branches were established in Okmulgee in 1946 and in Oklahoma City in 1961. (In 1990 their names were changed to OSU-Okmulgee and OSU-Oklahoma City.) In July of 1988, the Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery became the College of Osteopathic Medicine of OSU.
OSU is located in Stillwater, a north-central Oklahoma community with a population of more than 42,000. Stillwater is approximately 60 miles from the Tulsa and Oklahoma City metropolitan areas and is readily accessible from other major population centers by interstate highway and air.
Programs
Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Animal Science, Architecture, Art, Biochemistry, Business, Education, Engineering, Entomology, Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Honors Program, Horticulture, Management, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Natural Resources, Plant Pathology, Psychology, Sciences, Soil Science, Technology, Veterinary
Campus type
Normal
Carnegie
Research Universities
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