Friday, July 3, 2015

Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University (ORU) was founded in 1963 by televangelist Oral Roberts is a private liberal arts Christian university located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Oral Roberts University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA).

ORU occupies an area of ​​approximately 263 hectares. And on campus a lot of standing buildings with a futuristic style, which makes this university as one of the most unique buildings of the world of higher education.

ORU offers undergraduate theology, business, music, communication arts, modern languages, behavioral sciences, graphic, education, biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, engineering, physics, English, history, humanities, government and nursing. The university also has a seminary graduate and postgraduate programs fully accredited in Business and Education.

Students in the College of Science and Engineering with a GPA of 3.4 or higher have a medical school acceptance rate of 86% and 75% of dental school acceptance rate. ORU students have been accepted into more than 70 national medical schools, including Johns Hopkins University, Washington University, and Duke University. Due to the high acceptance rate for the drug, ORU signed early assurance program with Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2011, which allows student achievement to receive a conditional admission to OSU's medical school program. ORU is also one of the few undergraduate colleges in the southwest have a class dissection of human corpses. While ORU regarded as Christian University, Faculty of Science and Engineering does not neglect the theory of evolution to teach Creationism.

Through schools and colleges today, including the College of Education, College of Business, College of Theology and Ministry, College of Science and Engineering, as well as Anna Vaughn College of Nursing, Oral Roberts University offers more than 60 undergraduate majors program. While the most popular majors at the university include business administration, maintenance, and service and leadership.

As a Christian university, Oral Roberts University has a commitment to provide education while holding the guidelines of Christian teaching. For example, students at this university are expected to regularly attend chapel and must sign a code of honor that forbids them to consume alcohol and tobacco, as well as prohibited from engaging in immoral acts like homosexuality and heterosexual non-marital.

In addition, the university also take special policies for students who were aged under 25 years old to stay on campus, students are separated by gender.

Oral Roberts University has also provided a variety of non-academic activities through the organization and sororities. There are about 35 student organizations on campus. Many students Oral Roberts who joined the club of students to participate in a variety of short-term mission trip.

One of the active student clubs that attract many students athletics club. Oral Roberts University has a university sports team comprising some of the men's team and women's team, known as the Golden Eagles, who compete in Division I athletics.

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