Best Christian Colleges in Oklahoma 2025

Badge for BEST IN OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN COLLEGES

By Dr. James Barham
Reviewed By Jenn Finley

Published: May 3, 2021
Updated: Nov 14, 2024

Key Takeaways

From conservative to liberal, nondenominational to Presbyterian, there is a college in Oklahoma for any Christian student who wants to earn their college degree while keeping the focus on their faith in God.
A Christian college in Oklahoma is a perfect place to learn more about God while gaining knowledge and developing professionally.
While Christian colleges are among the top choices for Christian students, these schools also allow non-Christian enrollees to apply for admission.

Table of Contents

10 Best Christian Colleges in Oklahoma in 2025

University of Tulsa
Oklahoma City University
Oral Roberts University
Oklahoma Christian University
Oklahoma Baptist University
Bacone College
Southern Nazarene University
+1
Oklahoma Wesleyan University
–1
Southwestern Christian University
+1
Randall University
–1

2025 Ranking Update

Our Influence Ranking Engine™ leverages machine learning to track the real-world influence of colleges and universities over time. Below you’ll see which schools gained or lost ground for the 2025 school year.

There were no changes in the top 5 positions in our 2025 ranking of the best Christian colleges in Oklahoma.

The University of Tulsa, the top school in our ranking, has expanded its campus ministry center and is partnering with local churches for service opportunities and mentorship programs. The school is also offering courses in Christian ethics and theology integrated into a broader liberal arts education.

Oklahoma City University has introduced a new Christian studies minor and more student-led ministry programs to create more opportunities for worship and fellowship.

Oral Roberts has introduced a new “Faith in Action” initiative that integrates service opportunities within the curriculum, allowing students to earn credit through community outreach and mission-focused projects. The school has also invested in state-of-the-art facilities for theological studies and spiritual counseling.

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.

How do we determine Oklahoma's best Christian colleges and universities?

Methodology

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.