Our Community
Campus
Dawn with the Stanton L. Young Clock Tower in foreground The OUHSC campus is located approximately 5 minutes from downtown Oklahoma City and 20 miles north of the main University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, Oklahoma. The OUHSC is the State’s major educational resource for the training of physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, public health specialists, and a wide range of allied health personnel. There are approximately 3,000 students enrolled in the more than 60 graduate and undergraduate degree programs of the seven colleges: Allied Health, Dentistry, Graduate, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health. There are approximately 950 faculty and 2,100 staff who work at the OUHSC; and over 35,000 people, representing institutional employees, students, patients, and visitors, converge on the OUHSC campus daily, making it one of the largest comprehensive academic health centers in the Southwest.
Metro Area
Downtown OKC Parking Garage(Click for larger view)
Most of the staff and students live in Oklahoma City (population 400,000), or surrounding areas, including Moore and Norman, located 15 and 30 minutes commute to the South, and Edmond, which is a 20 minute commute to the North of Oklahoma City. Attractions include Bricktown, the Oklahoma City Art Museum, and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. There are also a number of riding stables in the metro area, amusement parks, the International Museum of Photography, and the National Amateur Softball Hall of Fame. Professional-quality local theatrical groups include Lyric Theater and Shakespeare in the Park.
State
Eastern Oklahoma as painted by former chair Ann D. Thor, MD
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A relatively mild four-season climate with low cost of living, attractive parks, numerous lakes and recreational facilities, a strong Native American heritage, open prairie grasslands to the west and the lake-enriched foothills of the Ozark and Ouachita mountains to the east and southeast make Oklahoma an ideal place in which to live and work. It is the birthplace of a number of national figures, including baseball great Mickey Mantle, actor James Garner, and musicians as diverse as Woody Guthrie and Toby Keith. There is a professional quality opera company in Tulsa (less than two hours from Oklahoma City), art and historical museums throughout the state, and a number of exciting weekend getaways.