Oakwood University Business Programs

Located in Huntsville, Alabama, Oakwood University is a private not-for-profit institution. Huntsville is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

Where Is Oakwood University?

Contact details for Oakwood are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	7000 Adventist Blvd Nw, Huntsville, AL 35896
Phone:	256-726-7000
Website:	www.oakwood.edu
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/oakwooduniversity
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/OakwoodU

How Do I Get Into Oakwood?

You can apply to Oakwood online at: https://my.oakwood.edu/ICS/Admissions/

Admission Requirements for Oakwood

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	recommended
TOEFL	recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into Oakwood?

Since Oakwood has an acceptance rate of 89%, it is not too hard to gain acceptance into the school. Still, you need to be sure you complete your application in full and send in any other requested documents.

Approximately 36% of accepted students are men and 64% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 97%, and the acceptance rate for women is 85%.

Can I Afford Oakwood University?

The overall average net price of Oakwood is $27,393. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Oakwood, approximately 97% of students took out student loans averaging $9,024 a year. That adds up to $36,096 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Oakwood is 11.8%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.

Oakwood University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,339 undergraduate students at Oakwood, with 1,240 being full-time and 99 being part-time.

There are also 35 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,240 full-time undergraduates at Oakwood, 41% are male and 59% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Oakwood University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	3
Black or African American	1,037
Hispanic or Latino	74
White	6
International Students	86
Other Races/Ethnicities	34

Geographic Diversity

Alabama students aren't the only ones who study at Oakwood University. At this time, 34 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 24 countries are represented at Oakwood. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Bahamas, Bermuda, and Canada.

Online Learning at Oakwood University

In 2019-2020, 1,119 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Oakwood has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 14th most popular in Alabama for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Oakwood

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Oakwood University was $19,990 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Oakwood is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Organizational Behavior Studies	#10	#10
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	#13	#10
Human Resource Management	#55	#31
Organizational Leadership	#64	#49

Online Growth Rankings of Oakwood

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Oakwood University was 53.4%. This is the #543 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Oakwood regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Oakwood ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Oakwood.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	#4
Organizational Behavior Studies	#10
Human Resource Management	#65
Organizational Leadership	#82
Business Administration & Management	#405

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Oakwood University Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
Organizational Behavior Studies	21	0	21
General Management Information Systems	8	0	8
Finance	6	0	6
Accounting	5	0	5
General Business Administration and Management	5	0	5
Organizational Leadership	0	3	3
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	1	0	1
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	0	0	0
Public Relations	0	0	0
TOTAL	46	3	49

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.