by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Oakland University was awarded 51 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general human resources management/personnel administration.
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Oakland is ranked #443 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Oakland held the #447 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 56 colleges in Michigan, Oakland is ranked at #10.
With an acceptance rate of 90%, Oakland has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
About 1% of students accepted to Oakland submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 515 and 640. Math scores were between 500 and 605.
The student to faculty ratio at Oakland University is about average at 17 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Oakland University is 54%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 75% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Oakland University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full-time students who get their bachelor's degree with four years. At Oakland this rate is 31%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 15,100 undergraduates at Oakland with 12,057 being full-time and 3,043 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8,135 | $8,139 | $11,703 | $17,798 | $20,242 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Oakland, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
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 Oakland, approximately 36% of students took out student loans averaging $5,672 a year. That adds up to $22,688 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Oakland are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2200 North Squirrel Road, Rochester Hills, MI 48309-4401 |
| Phone: | 248-370-2100 |
| Website: | www.oakland.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 600 | $74,917 |
| Other Health Professions | 246 | $29,225 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 231 | $78,213 |
| Computer Information Systems | 227 | $66,537 |
| General Psychology | 210 | $28,026 |
| Business Administration & Management | 200 | $62,359 |
| General Biology | 191 | $27,497 |
| Human Resource Management | 187 | $51,010 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 178 | $42,440 |
| Electrical Engineering | 174 | $80,623 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 9,475 students took at least one online class at Oakland University. This is a decrease from the 10,892 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 9,475 | 1,820 |
| 2021-2022 | 10,892 | 2,291 |
| 2020-2021 | 17,748 | 10,502 |
| 2018-2019 | 4,772 | 714 |
Footnotes
*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.
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