For prospective college students looking for schools that align with their Christian faith and demonstrate academic excellence, here are the best Christian colleges and universities in Oklahoma.
Less than half of the schools in Oklahoma are private schools. However, students who attend one these schools can expect a more intimate college experience, as each has a student population smaller than 4,000 students. The largest private school, the University of Tulsa, offers degrees in fields like education, criminal justice, and literature, with tuition fees around $41,000. The public schools tend to be more cost-friendly, with tuition ranging from $4,000 to $9,000 per year.
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The University of Oklahoma, the state’s largest public school, costs about $9,000 and serves over 24,000 students. Here, students can partake in competitive on-campus programs in fields like communications and social work, or pursue one of the 30 graduate degrees and certificates online. Oklahoma is also home to several religiously affiliated schools, like Oral Roberts University and Bacone College. Students hoping to pursue a career as a physician, physician’s assistant, or dentist may also want to consider earning their degree here as the state offers several loan forgiveness programs to those who qualify.
The state of Oklahoma is serious about its food — so serious they even declared an official state meal, which consists of fried okra, cornbread, barbecue pork, squash, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, strawberries, chicken fried steak, black-eyed peas, and pecan pie. Those hoping to feed both their bellies and their minds can attend one of Oklahoma’s more than 40 colleges and universities.
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The following list of the best Christian schools consists entirely of colleges and universities that offer four-year undergraduate degrees. We’ve identified 11 Christian colleges in Oklahoma. In order to be included in this ranking list of best Christian colleges and universities, a school must self-identify as Christian, be fully accredited, and offer a broad range of bachelor degree programs.
The people affiliated with a school are ultimately what make it great! If you are serious about finding the best colleges and universities for a bachelor’s degree, you should be asking where the most influential professors are teaching and whether their graduates are themselves advancing the school’s reputation for academic excellence in their fields of study.
Most ranking sites rely on an opaque combination of reputation surveys and arbitrary performance metrics. Concentrated Influence provides a ranking that is freer from bias, insulated from manipulation, and reflective of real-world educational outcomes.
To rank the influence of schools, we first determine the influence of scholars and professionals based on the number of citations and publications they have had over the past 10 years. In addition to publications and citations, we consider the web links to and from these sources, and the page views of those sources. We then match the influential people to their alma maters and institutions of employment, so that their influence is attributed to those schools. Our machine-learning Influence Ranking algorithm produces a numerical score of academic achievements, merits, and citations across Wikipedia, wikidata, Crossref, Semantic Scholar and an ever-growing body of data. If you are interested in exploring how and why we rank by influence, explore our methodology in more depth.
Tuition + fees
$46K
Acceptance
69%
Graduation
73%
Student body
4K
Median SAT/ACT
1225/27
University of Tulsa’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$33K
Acceptance
73%
Graduation
71%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1200/25
Oklahoma City University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$32K
Acceptance
78%
Graduation
56%
Student body
4K
Median SAT/ACT
1114/21
Oral Roberts University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$25K
Acceptance
61%
Graduation
60%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1125/24
Oklahoma Christian University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$32K
Acceptance
58%
Graduation
55%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1105/23
Oklahoma Baptist University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$15K
Acceptance
47%
Graduation
9%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
873/15
Bacone College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$29K
Acceptance
83%
Graduation
36%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1035/20
Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$27K
Graduation
48%
Student body
2K
Southern Nazarene University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$16K
Acceptance
39%
Graduation
55%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
900/21
Randall University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$20K
Acceptance
62%
Graduation
30%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
992/18
Southwestern Christian University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$19K
Graduation
43%
Student body
1K
Mid-America Christian University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Many of our 2022 undergraduate focused rankings look considerably different than 2021. That’s because we took a fundamentally different apporach. For 2021 we utiulized our Concentrated Influence algorithm, designed to take away the size advantage larger schools have when we rank their faculty and alumni’s academic influence. Concentrated influence highlights smaller schools that are proportionally as successful as larger universities at cultivating influential alumni and faculty.
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