OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Stillwater, Okla., U.S., a part of Oklahoma's State System of Higher Education. The university also operates junior colleges in Okmulgee and Oklahoma City. The Stillwater campus comprises colleges of agricultural sciences and natural resources, business administration, education, human environmental sciences, veterinary medicine, arts and sciences, and engineering, architecture, and technology. A range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs is offered. The university also offers a two-year general education at its campus in Kameoka, near Kyoto, Japan. Research facilities include the Center for Integrated Design and Manufacturing and the Center for Biotechnology. Total enrollment is approximately 19,000. The university was established in 1890 as a land-grant institution under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862. Instruction began in 1891. The university was then known as Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College; it became Oklahoma State University in 1957. The branch in Okmulgee was founded in 1946, the Oklahoma City branch in 1961. The university added the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, located in Tulsa, in 1988.