Office of the Provost - The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

The Mission of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, as a comprehensive academic health center, is to educate students at the professional, graduate, and undergraduate levels to become highly qualified health services practitioners, educators, and research scientists; to conduct research and creative activities for the advancement of knowledge through teaching and development of skills; and to provide continuing education, public service, and clinical care of exemplary quality.

The University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) is the State of Oklahoma's major health professions educational institution, training physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, public health specialists, and a wide range of allied health personnel.

With a budget of over $640 million, OUHSC employs more than 1,300 full time faculty and nearly 4,000 staff. Approximately 4,000 students are enrolled in more than seventy undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the Center's colleges.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is one of only four comprehensive health centers in the nation with seven health professional Colleges.

The College of Medicine is the centerpiece of a 200 acre campus of the Oklahoma Health Center, which also includes the Colleges of Allied Health, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Graduate College.

Health Sciences Center faculty and students use the clinical, laboratory, and teaching facilities of the OU Medical Center (which includes University Hospital, Children's Hospital of Oklahoma, and Presbyterian Hospital), the Veterans Administration Medical Center, the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and other affiliated hospitals in Oklahoma City, three major teaching hospitals in Tulsa, the Veterans Administration Hospital in Muskogee, and various affiliated hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities in other locations in Oklahoma.

Research, training grants and contracts, and sponsored program activities at the OU Health Sciences Center totaled more than $141 million in FY 2008.