OSU Most Desirable College in Oklahoma

[Bunty]

FROM: The Most Desirable College In Each State [MAP] - Business Insider

Higher-education information website eCollegeFinder has put together this great map showing the most desirable college in each state based on the number of applications they received this year.

The map is an interesting mix of large state universities and more prestigious — and selective — private schools. The University of California, Los Angeles, had the most applications of any college in the country, with 72,676 potential students vying for admission in fall 2013.

eCollegeFinder's Mike Simmons put the map together using data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Via eCollegeFinder, these are the most desirable colleges in the country:

[Pete]

Those numbers are just for applicants, not those who actually enrolled; the difference between OU and OSU was 73 applications as each received about 11,000.

OU had a larger amount of enrollees, with higher admission standards.

Also, just comparing the Norman and Stillwater campuses, OU has the largest number of undergrads and total students (including graduate programs).

[kelroy55]

Florida is surprising with UCF.

[Jake]

Was thinking the same thing. Hard to believe.

[Pete]

Florida is surprising with UCF.

It's a huge commuter school.

Has almost 60,000 students on several campuses.

[kelroy55]

It's a huge commuter school.

Has almost 60,000 students on several campuses.

Thanks... I didn't know it was that big.

[zookeeper]

Those numbers are just for applicants, not those who actually enrolled; the difference between OU and OSU was 73 applications as each received about 11,000.

OU had a larger amount of enrollees, with higher admission standards.

Also, just comparing the Norman and Stillwater campuses, OU has the largest number of undergrads and total students (including graduate programs).

Pete nailed it with that one fact. To me, this doesn't say a whole lot about anything. Take Missouri, for example. Wash U in St. Louis is a private, very expensive, elite school that gets tons of applications from all over the world. It's probably the closest prestigious school to Oklahoma. But, it's small and they only accept a fraction of the applicants. I'm not sure this map means much, it's just kind of.....interesting.

[onthestrip]

Those numbers are just for applicants, not those who actually enrolled; the difference between OU and OSU was 73 applications as each received about 11,000.

OU had a larger amount of enrollees, with higher admission standards.

Also, just comparing the Norman and Stillwater campuses, OU has the largest number of undergrads and total students (including graduate programs).

OU in Norman has more enrolled that OSU Stillwater but OSU has the most enrollment when factoring in OSU-Okmulgee, OSU-OKC, OSU Osteopathic, and OU's Health Science Center and law school.

[Just the facts]

It's a huge commuter school.

Has almost 60,000 students on several campuses.

They must have only counted 4-year schools because Miami-Dade College has 170,000 students on 8 campuses.

[Pete]

OU in Norman has more enrolled that OSU Stillwater but OSU has the most enrollment when factoring in OSU-Okmulgee, OSU-OKC, OSU Osteopathic, and OU's Health Science Center and law school.

Yes, when you add in two junior colleges for OSU that don't even require a HS diploma and compare them to professional advanced-degree programs at OU, OSU does indeed have more enrolled.

[boitoirich]

Yes, this headline was written just to generate traffic. The methodology is clearly flawed when Columbia isn't tops in New York, UPenn doesn't hold pole position in PA, MIT in MA, Johns Hopkins in MD, Emory in GA, and UChicago in IL aren't in their obvious places. Wash U. in Missouri seems right, though.

[Jeepnokc]

Yes, when you add in two junior colleges for OSU that don't even require a HS diploma and compare them to professional advanced-degree programs at OU, OSU does indeed have more enrolled.

I was thinking along the same lines but also that these advance degree programs also have admission limits on the size of the class they take each year. OU Dental , law, and medical limit incoming class size.

[Zuplar]

Glad to see my alma mater (Colorado) is on there. Honestly not surprised though. As far as desirability I think we all know OU is desired more from an academic standpoint which is the only thing I think that matters.

[catcherinthewry]

OSU took out a full page add about this in The Oklahoman today. My theory on this is that a lot of students apply to OSU as a fall back option in case they don't get admitted to OU.

[Urbanized]

McDonald's also apparently has the most desirable hamburgers in the U.S..

Not a swipe at OSU in any way, but the entire map isn't worth the paper it's printed on, and it ain't even printed on paper to begin with.

[Pete]

[Urbanized]

That's embarrassing. OSU has plenty of REAL distinctions to hang its cowboy hat on. They shouldn't dignify flawed fluff by taking out a full page ad to celebrate it.

[ou48A]

I suppose its fine if your university made that list, but trying to make hay out of it in anyway is a sure sign of internal feelings of inferiority and desperation that can become like a form of spin and propaganda.
I hope that most OSU people are disappointed that their leadership would print something this cheap.

[OKCisOK4me]

^^^pffft, WTF? Still reeling cause you haven't heard any results from the SI Scandal? Sounds like you have an inferiority complex, lol.


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[Throckmorton]

I, for one, am shocked - shocked! - that ou48a showed up to poop all over OSU and their fans in this thread.

[ylouder]

Didn't it come out that ou48...never even went to OU?

[OKCisOK4me]

Didn't it come out that ou48...never even went to OU?

Who knows but that's just how it is with OU fans. There's not one OSU fan I don't know that didn't attend OSU for at least a semester.


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[SOONER8693]

Who knows but that's just how it is with OU fans. There's not one OSU fan I don't know that didn't attend OSU for at least a semester.


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Wow. That IS very impressive data. You should get a trophy. Everybody gets a trophy now days.

[ctchandler]

OKCisOK4me,
You must lead a sheltered life. I know lots of them and they're great fans, they hate OU and love their Cowboys and very few of them were fair weather fans. Show me the definition of fan that says they must have a relationship with whatever they are a fan of. I didn't attend OU or OSU, does that mean I can't be a fan of either team?
C. T.

Who knows but that's just how it is with OU fans. There's not one OSU fan I don't know that didn't attend OSU for at least a semester.


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[Midtowner]

Who knows but that's just how it is with OU fans. There's not one OSU fan I don't know that didn't attend OSU for at least a semester.

So OSU lacks the marketing expertise of OU? And anecdotally at least, that's just not very true. One of my best friends is a hardcore OSU fan, tailgates every single game--it's a massive operation. Never went there.

Having received both of my degrees from two other in state schools, I don't really have an official alliance, but if I had to pick, it'd be OU. It's much more fun to root for a winner.

That said, I don't know what a football team has to do with the academic desirability of a university. Pretty typical that a conversation about academic desirability would be dragged down into a football pissing contest by people with degrees from no schools.