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 $400 million, OUHSC employs more than 800 full time faculty and 2,400 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.
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