University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Top Questions

It is a big university. You might get lost in the hustle at the beginning, but people here are very friendly. When I tell people I went to OU, they think I'm a big sports fan. I was too busy studying to care sometimes. Campus Corner is a great place to get food between classes, and it is very busy on the weekends. A lot of people party at Campus Corner, but some of the best parties were at the off-campus apartments. Norman is great for a college town. It's a growing area that attracts many professionals. It's close enough to Oklahoma City to enjoy Bricktown, but it is far away enough to maintain its individuality as a separate community.

The best thing about OU: My cynical answer would be its National Merit scholarship, which is the ONLY reason why I even bothered to look into this school. But I suppose the more helpful answer would be its size. The student body is fairly large, but the campus manages to stay relatively small. The large student body makes for some more diversity. One thing I'd change: I'd love to up the quality of the academics, and consequently OU's reputation. People here whine constantly about classes that are totally managable. I want to get into a decent med school (aka get the HELL out of Oklahoma), but OU's reputation probably won't be helping me out with that. When I tell people I go to OU, most non-Oklahomans sneer--I won't lie. I am from Texas, where the impression of Oklahomans is one of idiocy and low-class. I get shit from my high school friends all the time. Really, guys, the people here are generally of average intelligence! I spend most of my time on campus...in my classes? In between classes, the numerous benches are good on nice days (aka days AFTER Aug/Sept's brutal heat/humidity). My favorite place to bench it out is the space between the President's building and the library. When I'm feeling particularly bourgeois, I like to waste my money at the Bookmark (basement level) on flavored soy lattes, but I always feel guilty afterwards. Really, the library's a swell place, very collegiate, you feel like you're getting the typical, pleasant university experience. Norman itself can be pretty boring. Unfortunately most of the nightlife caters to the 21+ crowd, including the Deli, which is a pretty neat, small music venue on Campus Corner. Rarely do decent bands come to play for Normanites (and Oklahoma City's little help, either!). I'm a vegan, so most of the restaurants aren't great for me, excluding the Earth, which is a nice little deli place. Parking is HORRIBLE on campus, so I'd recommend taking the bus, riding a bike, or walking to campus after your freshman year. I have an evening parking permit for my night labs, but that's it. Parking usually opens up a bit after 3:30pm.

OU is a great school with alot of diversity. I am so proud to say I go here. There are a ton of people but you can always walk down or up the South Oval and see someone you know in the sea of students walking.

Norman is a very laid back, hippie style community with lots of things to do. Music festivals happen a few times a year and the party/bar scene is very fun. Lots of options and plenty of people to find a group that you can associate with. Norman is cool because the town was built around the school, so everything is focused on the University. The best thing about Norman is the abundance of very fine woman.

The BEST thing about OU is the tradition they have with the football games, and plus their is a lot of fine bitches in the school. I would say the school is just right. When i tell people that i go to OU, most of the time I get a smile. I spend most of my time on campus in my classes and the cafeteria and gym. IT really is a college town with no doubt. OU'S administration is good, i have no problem with it. The biggest controversy about the campus was really nothing, i saw it as a wide selection of food to eat for the OU students. The one experience i'll always remember about OU is the football games that I attended for the Fall 2007 @OU. The most frequent student complaints would have to be Zoology tests were too hard and the tests were very tricky and the teacher wasn't that great.

OU is the perfect size, it doesn't take more than 15 min to walk from the freshman dorms to the other side of campus but the map takes up an entire page OU has amazing alums and a faculty and staff that really care about helping their students, finding an internship is never a problem There aren't any bars or clubs in Norman, so frat parties is the only place to be on the weekends, weekends start Thursday night. OKC and Bricktown is where you go for clubs and bars Norman is a college town for sure, but OKC is not. Norman is cozy and small, stay off Lindsey st. around 6 OU has amazing school spirit! Game day is a blast! and make sure you wear crimson, which is very different from red or maroon If you come to OU don't bring anything orange! (the colors of both our rival schools) There is nothing like your first OU football game as a freshman, when the band plays and cross the field the whole crowd goes crazy!

I did not appreciate going to OU. I went in with an open mind and was quickly shattered due to all of the phony, snobby, students that attend that school. It was the worst years of my life. I considered joining a sorority but decided I would rather not pay for my friends. Campus should be a place where you meet people, not where they just always walk by you without a 'hello' or hardly any eye contact.

My favorite aspect of OU is that it's very large, yet still feels intimate. Rarely am I able to go anywhere without seeing a few people I know. I also love that as you begin to enroll in classes more specific to your major, you find that you have most of the same people in your classes who have similar interests as you and who are there to focus on what you are focusing on. Also, OU has a great reputation around the country, especially for being a state school. I am currently living in New York and it is rare for me to tell a New Yorker I attend the University of OKlahoma without them knowing we're the Sooners or knowing some type of random fact about the school. It makes me incredibly proud. I love how grounded OU is in a rich tradition. Sooner football and home games, OU/TX weekend, homecoming celebrations, parents weekends, and the clock tower are all parts of the University that are not only special to me, but also to many of my fellow students and the alum. Last, I will forever remember the pride and excitement in the air and on every Sooner's face on game days. Hands down, there is nothing like it and nothing to compare it to.

I think OU is awesome because of the people. Everyone's so friendly and encouraging and fun. The classes are pretty good, depending on your teacher (pickaprof.com FTW). And I really like the small-town atmosphere. Definitely not much to do if you want to go on dates, but I like the more simple attitude like walking through parks, tossing the frisbee, sitting on the south oval, stuff like that. It's also not too big. I wanted to go someplace bigger than, say, my private school (which was tiny) but also not get lost in the crowd like at UT or A&M and OU was the perfect fit for me.

There is tons of school pride at OU. The school year starts off only a few weeks before football season--the highlight of the year in Oklahoma. At football games, 85,000 screaming fans gather and the student section is rocking. This is always so exciting to see! "BOOOOOMER!! SOOOONER!!" can be heard miles away. The average OU student wears an OU shirt at least twice a week. Crimson and cream is seen all over campus and Norman. This town is full of the University of Oklahoma school spirit and pride!

I love Ou football. I can't think of anything that I would change. I have always wanted to go to a big school and OU is big but that is what I wanted. They are impressed and usually ask more questions about going there. I love the library, and I also hang out in the union a lot. I don't really know too much about the administration, but things seem to run pretty smoothly. I don't really know of any controversy. I think that there might have been a bomb threat or something not too long ago. There is a ton of school pride... A TON! BOOMER SOONER!!!!!!!!!!

I think that the town, campus and atmosphere are perfect. Norman is a great place to live and OU is the perfect size!!

OU is a great school in a cool town. The best thing about OU is how it connects people from across the state and provides a window to the outside world.

OU is based in Norman which is cool cause its a small college town but its only like 30 minutes from OKC or 3 hours from Dallas. There's plenty of school pride during the football season, but that seems to be it, so its obvious to say football games are the place to be. if it wasnt for Sooner football, the school would probably fall apart, which is fine cause i love football, but someone who doesnt would die here.

I think OU is a great size school. On the way to class you will almost always see people you know and you will see new people too. I think a lot of people picture Norman as a small town, and I did too coming from Dallas, but as I began to realize, Norman doesn't seem small at all and there are a lot of people living in Norman that aren't affiliated with the University. Norman is just the right size, and if there isn't something in Norman its only a 20 minute drive to Oklahoma City! The only complaint I can think of about OU is the crazy weather and the sidewalks flooding. Bring a umbrella and rainboots! There is pretty much a student on every inch of campus. A lot of students hang out at the Union and the Library. Another great hang out spot is Campus Corner that is filled with fun shops and great places to eat.

OU is a very loving school. I have two very different groups of friends there. One is all greek people and the other is from my team. I attend frat parties and just regualr house parties which I think says a lot about OU. It does not matter where you come from or who you are, there is always a place for you here. I transferred to OU from a different school where I just couldn't find myself. Right when I got to OU I felt at home. It is a great college town in the sense that there are clubs in Norman as well as local restaurants and shops AND the best thing is the city is about 30 minutes away so you can go there for special occasions. It is perfect because you have this close OU community but can also go to the city for a weekend. The administration at OU so far has been SO helpful. The advisors helped me so much in my transferring which can be a big mess. Also, the study abroad advisors are extremely helpful and soooo organized. the teachers, of course, are great too. I lucked out with my teachers in the Spring and got some really wonderful ones. This past year (Freshman year) I would say during the day I spent most of my time in class, at the boathouse (crew), in my room or in the study lounge in my hall. On the weekends I was almost always at a frat house or a house party.

The best thing about OU, to me, are probably the teachers and the friends I have made. I feel OU is just right, not too big and not too small. Usually when I say I attend OU people are very positive about it and say they have known or know people that graduated from OU. When I am on campus it is usually in Kauffman Hall which is where a lot of the language majors are located. I grew up in Norman so I never looked at is as a "college town," it is home to me, and has turned into a home for a lot of students who are not from Norman. I have never had too big of a controversy with a teacher, but often I have found that people in charge of things do not like to be told they are wrong or anything they have done is wrong. I am sure there are a lot of controversies that are not openly talked about on campus, but one recent frustration with a lot of students was that a parking lot, a perfectly good parking lot was repaved. This would not be so frustrating if the parking lot had not been just for teachers, the parking lot did not need to be repaved in the first place, and the bathrooms in almost every building are in terrible shape. A few of them have shower curtains for doors. I do not believe, if the student's voices were actually listened to, that any student would vote to repave a perfectly good parking lot over fixing the bathrooms in any of the buildings. President Boren and other administrators pretty much do whatever they want to with our ever-increasing tuition and fees. There is school pride, but mostly just in football, which is extremely unfair to all the other atheletes and students. The most frequent student complaints are that fees each semester cost more than tuition; fees that a lot of the student's do not even use! For example, there will be fees for the buses, for using the medical center, computer fees, library fees, all sorts of fees that you cannot get taken off and is extremely unfair and ridiculous. When a student is not using the buses, or has their own insurance, they should not have to pay for it, yet there is no way to get around it. A lot of students feel like President Boren and the rest of his "crew" do not care about us and our achievements, they do not care if we succeed or fail, as long as, at the end of the day, they have their money in their pocket.

The University of Oklahoma provides an outstanding educational experience for students at every level. The instructors professionalism and standard of education is wonderful. I would recommend OU to all future prospective students.

Pretty campus...Not the greatest parking conditions...Some times hard to get a good space around Dale Hall parking area especially. Over all the administration is good to work with. Occasionally you meet up with incoherent office personnel or an insensitive type. The town is small compared to say living in Big D as I did for many years. There is not a huge amount of entertainment, sorta make your own, but I am an older student so that is a factor most students will not have. I do not live on campus and I hang out with a much older crowd, but do frequent campus clubs and some campus activities (like music events/art exhibits/plays. Most weekends there are a couple free movies. Frat houses and the like are plentiful, if that is a desirable pursuit. The town has "old houses" fixer uppers near campus that can be homey/quaint. Ten miles or less east of the university is lake "Thunder-bird" which in one area has a little snack bar/restaurant with tables overlooking the water nice for a ride out on a cycle or a drive out to watch the sun set. Plenty of people party here like every where else, but the laid back moments are often, if you choose that.

The biggest thing at OU is OU FOOTBALL One thing I would change would be the price of parking School size is just right People react great when I say I went to OU (unless they went/go to OSU or Texas) Most of my time was spent in the Michael F. Price College of Business while at OU Definitely a college town and fills all the requirements for a college town OU's administration is good and seems to try very hard to make the students happy One of the biggest controversies has been whether OU should be a "wet" or "dry" campus (alcohol) There is A TON of school pride As far as I know, OU is a pretty normal college Football games at OU are the most memorable moments for anyone Most complaints are about the size of some general education classes