About OU Health Sciences

About OU Health Sciences

The University of Oklahoma Health Campus, located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is one of four comprehensive academic health centers in the nation with seven health professional colleges: Allied Health, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, and Graduate. The OU Health Campus is the leading educator of future health care professionals in the State of Oklahoma, and serves as a place of education, training, and developing the next generation of health care providers and researchers. As the State of Oklahoma's major health professions educational institution, the OU Health Campus trains physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, public health specialists, researchers, and a wide range of allied health personnel.

With an enrollment of 3900, Health Campus program students are located on two campuses, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, as well as six additional sites in Ardmore, Bartlesville, Duncan, Norman, Lawton, and Weatherford.  The student community is comprised of 100+ different institutions with a hope and a commitment to research, caring, and healing.

Health Campus faculty and students use the clinical, laboratory, and teaching facilities of OU Health, Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, other affiliated hospitals in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, three major hospital systems in Tulsa, Veterans Affairs Hospital in Muskogee, and clinics in various locations in Oklahoma.

Scientists, scholars, and clinicians at OU Health Campus deliver health care solutions through bench-to-bedside-to-community research and through training the state’s most comprehensive and skilled health workforce. As an essential partner for the State of Oklahoma, OU Health Campus improves health outcomes and drives economic growth and diversification, and changes lives for good.

For information regarding OU Health Campus programs, please contact Recruitment & Admissions at (405) 271-2359 or discoverhsc@ou.edu.

Campus visits are available Recruitment & Admissions. To arrange a campus tour, visit Tour Our Campus or call (405) 271-2359.

University Governance

The University of Oklahoma is a part of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, which is composed of all higher education institutions supported wholly or in part by state appropriations. The Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education is the coordinating board for the system. The University — as part of the public educational system of the state, established by legislative action and supported by annual legislative appropriations — places emphasis on sound scholarship, good citizenship, and the duties of the individual to the community and the commonwealth.

By constitutional enactment, the governance of the University of Oklahoma (OU) is vested in the OU Board of Regents, a board consisting of seven members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the state Senate. Each member is appointed to serve for seven years, except when appointed to fill an unexpired term, and is subject to removal from office only as provided by law for the removal of officers not liable to impeachment. The Oklahoma Regents and the University Regents approve the requirements for admission and graduation, the degrees offered, and the fees and expenses. The boards reserve the right to change these requirements.

The University president is charged with the educational and business management of the entire University. Upon recommendation of the faculties and by authority vested in them by the regents, the president confers all degrees. The senior vice president and provost, OU Health Campus, senior vice president and provost, OU Norman Campus, are the chief administrative officers and provide academic and administrative leadership. For more information regarding Dr. Gary Raskob, OU Health Campus Senior Vice President and Provost, please visit here. 

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