The 25 Schools Stocked With Jocks

The University of Oklahoma, or OU, is a public college with close to 20,000 undergraduates. The school in Norman, Oklahoma, is well known for its sports programs, particularly football. The Sooners have won seven NCAA Division 1 National Football championships—just one of the reasons the school lands at No. 19 on Newsweek’s list of 25 colleges stocked with jocks.

The University of Oklahoma receives over 10,000 applicants each year. Ultimately, 78 percent of those students earn admission and enter into OU’s classrooms, which offer a student-to-faculty ratio of 17 to 1. Sixty-four percent of those students graduate within four years.

The majority of OU students, 67 percent, are from Oklahoma. The undergraduate population is evenly split between men and women, and at 74 percent, the school is largely white, followed by American-Indians at 7 percent, Asian-Americans and African-Americans at 6 percent, and Hispanics at 5 percent.

Tuition for the 2009–2010 school year was $19,790 for in-state students and $29,771 for non-Oklahoma residents. Eighty-two percent of students receive financial aid.