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A Factual Guide to The University of Tulsa

The University of Tulsa was originally the Presbyterian School for Indian Girls, founded in Muskogee in 1882 and chartered as Henry Kendall College in 1894. The school moved to Tulsa in 1907 and became The University of Tulsa in 1921. The university celebrated its centennial in 1994. The University of Tulsa is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is one of the Presbyterian Church’s largest doctoral degree granting institutions of higher education.

With an average class size of 19 and a student-faculty ratio of 11-1, The University of Tulsa provides a very personal education for its 4,165 students.

64 percent of TU’s 2007 freshman class graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class.

The average ACT score of incoming freshman in fall 2007 was 27.

The Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC) is a unique three-part program that involves undergraduates in advanced research, course work, and community service.

TU has a total enrollment of 4,165 students for fall 2007 (2,987 undergraduate, 638 graduate, 540 law) including 656 first-time freshmen.

The University of Tulsa has four colleges: the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences, the Collins College of Business, the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences and the College of Law, plus the Graduate School.

TU offers bachelor’s degrees in 59 areas of study, in addition to 33 master’s degrees and 9 doctoral degrees and the Juris Doctorate degree.

TU had 67 National Merit Scholars in its 2007-2008 entering freshman class, 1 of every 10 students.
Standardized testing ranges for the middle 50 percent of the entering 2007 freshman class:

Geography of 2007 freshman class:

The male/female ratio of TU students (total enrollment) is 54 (m) to 46 (f).

15 percent of TU undergraduate students are from multicultural backgrounds, including international students, who comprise 13 percent of the student body.

Approximately 90.1 percent of the 2006 freshman class received some type of financial aid.

The number of full-time faculty is 306.

TU’s faculty includes 25 professors who hold endowed chairs or professorships.

TU’s total endowment market value is $640 million. The interest and dividend income, along with Annual Fund contributions, substantially subsidizes each student’s education.

The nationally recognized Tulsa Curriculum provides a broad, humanities-based foundation for all undergraduate students, with core competencies in math, writing, and, for certain majors, languages.

A chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at TU in October 1988 - one of only two chapters in Oklahoma.

TU’s McFarlin Library houses approximately 3.2 million books and documents, including the papers of 2001 Nobel laureate V.S. Naipul. The library’s Special Collections, which has holdings of more than 110,000 print volumes and 3,000 feet of manuscripts, is internationally recognized as a literary repository of 20th-century British, Irish and American literature, Native American history, and World-War I letters and artifacts.

The University of Tulsa’s McFarlin Library Special Collections, home of more than 110,000 print volumes and 3,000 feet of manuscripts, is internationally recognized as a literary repository of 20th-century British, Irish and American literature and Native American history. Collections include the papers of 2001 Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul, an extensive James Joyce archive, as well as the papers of Richard Ellmann, Richard Murphy, Jean Rhys, Paul Scott, Stevie Smith and Rebecca West. The Native American holdings feature the papers of Alice Robertson, the John W. Shleppey Collection and the J.B. Milam Library. TU also recently added the library of Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, which contains approximately 19,000 volumes strongly focused on English literature.

Petroleum Abstracts, a service of The University of Tulsa, is the world’s leading abstracting and indexing service for petroleum exploration and production literature. It provides the oil and gas industry with summaries of journal articles, technical papers, government documents, patents and other published items. The service, which has subscribers in 26 countries, provides the online TULSA database and produces more than 25,000 database entries a year.

Approximately 1,600 students live in TU campus housing, residence halls and apartments.

2007-2008 Tuition:

Tuition	$21,690
Fees	555
Typical room and board	7,404 (median)
Total	$29,645

The University of Tulsa competes in the top division of the NCAA and is a member of Conference USA. TU’s athletic program has 18 men’s and women’s intercollegiate teams, including men’s teams in basketball, cross country, football, golf, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer and tennis, and women’s teams in basketball, crew, cross country, golf, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball.

Last update: October 2007