Oral Roberts University Business Programs

Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oral Roberts University is a private not-for-profit institution. The location of the school is great for students who enjoy the amenities of city life.

Where Is Oral Roberts University?

Contact details for ORU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	7777 S Lewis Ave., Tulsa, OK 74171
Phone:	918-495-6161
Website:	oru.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/OralRobertsUniversity
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/OralRobertsU

How Do I Get Into ORU?

You can apply to ORU online at: https://oru.edu/admissions/apply.php

Admission Requirements for ORU

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	considered but not required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	considered but not required
SAT or ACT Scores	considered but not required
TOEFL	considered but not required

How Hard Is It To Get Into ORU?

ORU has an acceptance rate of 78%, which means that is not quite as selective as some other schools. Still, you'll need good grades and a solid application if you want to be admitted.

Approximately 37% of accepted students are men and 63% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 83%, and the acceptance rate for women is 76%.

Average Test Scores

About 40% of students accepted to ORU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 490 and 620. Math scores were between 490 and 600.

ORU received ACT scores from 62% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 18 and 28. Math scores were between 17 and 26. Composite scores were between 19 and 27.

Can I Afford Oral Roberts University?

The overall average net price of ORU is $30,984. 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

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At ORU, approximately 63% of students took out student loans averaging $7,767 a year. That adds up to $31,068 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at ORU is 5.4%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Oral Roberts University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 3,682 undergraduate students at ORU, with 2,667 being full-time and 1,015 being part-time.

There are also 635 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,667 full-time undergraduates at ORU, 40% are male and 60% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	92
Black or African American	414
Hispanic or Latino	363
White	1,165
International Students	313
Other Races/Ethnicities	320

Geographic Diversity

Oklahoma students aren't the only ones who study at Oral Roberts University. At this time, 39 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 76 countries are represented at ORU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Nigeria, South Korea, and India.

Online Learning at Oral Roberts University

In 2019-2020, 857 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 26th most popular in Oklahoma for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of ORU

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Oral Roberts University was $30,930 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how ORU 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
General Organizational Communication	#7	#7
Advertising	#7	#7
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	#10	#10
Human Resources Development	#10	#10
Public Relations	#13	#13
Public Relations & Advertising	#19	#19
Management Science	#31	#22
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	#31	#28
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	#40	#28
Marketing	#46	#43
Organizational Leadership	#56	#53
International Business/Trade/Commerce	#66	#66
International Business	#66	#66
Finance	#70	#64

Online Growth Rankings of ORU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Oral Roberts University was 22.4%. This is the #890 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at ORU regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at ORU 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 ORU.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Human Resources Development	#34
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#90
Human Resource Management	#161

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%.

Oral Roberts University Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	26	27	53
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	24	0	24
Accounting	17	0	17
Management Science	15	0	15
Organizational Leadership	4	10	14
Finance	12	0	12
International Business/Trade/Commerce	12	0	12
Public Relations	11	0	11
Interior Design Management	5	1	6
General Organizational Communication	3	0	3
Human Resources Development	1	0	1
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	1	0	1
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	0	0	0
Advertising	0	0	0
TOTAL	131	38	169

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
• Image Credit: By Dustin M. Ramsey under License

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