Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee, OK
Oklahoma Baptist University is a private, Baptist university in Shawnee, Oklahoma, a town 10 to 35 miles from a city, with 1,308 undergraduates. Education is its signature field: 10% of its bachelor's degrees, two and a half times its share across the colleges we cover. 52% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $48,434 ten years after starting.
Oklahoma Baptist University admitted 2,077 of 3,730 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (55.7%).
- Acceptance rate
- 55.7%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $35,570
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $20,958
- Average, students with aid
- ACT, middle 50%
- 20–28
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Oklahoma Baptist University is known for
Measured by the 302 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Education
9.6%
of its bachelor's degrees: two and a half times the 3.9% share across the colleges we cover.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing3310.9% of degrees$72,577−18% vs $88,910 nationally
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology206.6% of degrees$46,512−8% vs $50,523 nationally
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions206.6% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods196.3% of degrees$45,306About the $47,382 national median
- Business Administration, Management and Operations144.6% of degrees$73,651+8% vs $68,257 nationally
- International/Globalization Studies93.0% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Town, 10–35 miles from a city
Shawnee, OK
Undergraduates
1,308
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Master's university, small programs
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
16 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
1%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Oklahoma Baptist University
Three things Oklahoma Baptist University published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
The admit rate fell from 64% to 56% between fall 2018 and fall 2023.
Both ends are measured rates for classes that have already enrolled: a rate that moved, not a forecast. The fall 2023 figure is the one at the top of this page.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2018 to fall 2023
17% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
The SAT band on this page describes that share of the class, not all of it. Another 71% sent an ACT. Oklahoma Baptist University files test scores under “considered”.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Oklahoma Baptist University asks for no supplemental essay.
Of the 3 prompts we track for this application, none is one you would have to write.
Source: the prompts we track for this application
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
55.7%
2,077 admitted of 3,730 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
SAT, middle 50%
Reading 510–600Math 490–590
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
ACT, middle 50%
20–28
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
17%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
71%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Oklahoma Baptist University?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Oklahoma Baptist University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $35,570, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $48,695. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $20,958 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$35,570
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$48,695
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$20,958
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $48,695 full cost.
- Under $30k$17,562Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$17,103Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$21,033Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$21,570Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$26,102Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
52%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
72%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$48,434
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$24,801
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
How the rate has moved
Two measured admit rates from the federal survey, the years apart it reports them. A rate that moved, not a forecast.
Between fall 2018 and fall 2023 the admit rate fell from 64% to 56%.
What Oklahoma Baptist University says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Essayconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Essays on this application
3 essay prompts on the application.
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
- Regular DecisionJanuary 4, 2027
More colleges on the record
Each of these pages carries the same measured figures and sources.
Other colleges in Oklahoma
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma55.8%
- University of Tulsa58%
- East Central University65.5%
- Oklahoma City University70.4%
Colleges with a similar acceptance rate
Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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