Oral Roberts University
Private College in Tulsa, OK. Six-year graduation rate 57%. Median 10-year earnings $46,885.
Students who entered Oral Roberts University land at a median of $46,885 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 57% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 99% of applicants are accepted. 5,022 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Only 19% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 11% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 580–660 | 93 (11%) |
| SAT Math | 540–650 | |
| ACT Composite | 22–28 | 59 (7%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 57% finish inside six years. 80% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. 24% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Retention drops to 21% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,290 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $25,808 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $21,894 while those at $110k+ pay $30,514. Most students get help: 93% receive grants worth $19,342 on average. 57% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 734 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $21,894 |
| $30–48k | $22,022 |
| $48–75k | $22,902 |
| $75–110k | $27,269 |
| $110k+ | $30,514 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,890 of these 3,290 students, totalling $13,905,003 — an average of $7,357 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Tulsa County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)