Team: Oklahoma Sooners
Stadium: Memorial Stadium
Conference: Big 12
Sport: College Football
Background: The University of Oklahoma
(OU) is an institution of higher learning located in
Norman, Oklahoma. The university was founded in 1890.
It currently enrolls almost 29,000 students, has over
1,900 full-time faculty members, and offers 154 baccalaureate
programs, 152 master's programs, 74 doctorates, eight
majors at the first professional level, and five graduate
certificates.
These programs are contained in nineteen colleges, thirteen
of which are on the Norman campus: the College of Architecture,
the College of Arts and Sciences, the Michael F. Price
College of Business, the College of Continuing Education,
the College of Education, the College of Engineering,
the College of Fine Arts, the Gaylord College of Journalism
and Mass Communication, the College of Geosciences,
the Graduate College, the Honors College, the College
of Law, the College of Liberal Studies. The six colleges
headquartered at the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma
City are: the College of Allied Health, the College
of Dentistry, the College of Medicine, the College of
Nursing, the College of Pharmacy, and the College of
Public Health.