OSU-Tulsa to offer four-year undergraduate degrees
11/18/2025 1:05pm
TULSA, Okla. — Starting January 2026, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa will offer four-year undergraduate degrees.
OSU-Tulsa said it will add numerous lower-division classes in the upcoming spring semester across its undergraduate majors, with growth expected each semester in response to student and workforce needs.
The passage of Senate Bill 701 allows campuses that had previously been restricted from offering 1000 and 2000 courses to do so beginning Nov. 1.
Because of the bill, it is now possible to earn a full OSU bachelor’s degree in Tulsa.
“I’m grateful to the Legislature and Gov. Stitt for enacting Senate Bill 701,” OSU President Jim Hess said. “Until now, Tulsa was the largest city in America without a freestanding four-year, one-experience public institution. Senate Bill 701 gives Tulsa the opportunity to solve that problem, and I’m looking forward to OSU playing a significant role in being the solution.”
For students living in the Tulsa area, the expansion makes it possible to begin and complete a bachelor’s degree at OSU’s downtown campus in the historic Greenwood District, connecting their learning directly to Tulsa’s workforce opportunities and community, OSU-Tulsa said.
A complete pre-medicine pathway connected to the OSU Center for Health Sciences and to OSU Medicine’s network of residency programs is also now possible.
“This expansion reflects OSU’s commitment to meeting students where they are and preparing them to serve where they’re needed most,” OSU-Tulsa and OSU Center for Health Sciences President Johnny Stephens said. “Whether it’s future engineers, accountants or physicians, we’re building pathways that connect education directly to the needs of northeastern Oklahoma and continuing to build what we proudly call ‘Orange Country’.”
OSU-Tulsa has reached its highest enrollment to date, with its accounting program more than doubling in size and engineering growing by more than 30 percent over the past two years.
To support this growth, the campus has upgraded labs and added new student study and collaboration areas. OSU-Tulsa said the recently opened Main Hall 1300 Wing serves as a hub for hands-on learning in engineering and related disciplines and hosts applied technology courses taught by the OSU Institute of Technology.
Dr. Hess said OSU-Tulsa has long been a leader in serving returning adults and transfer students and will bring that same excellence and student-first focus to freshmen beginning their experience in Tulsa.
“For 25 years, OSU-Tulsa has been known as the place to finish your bachelor’s degree,” Hess said. “For the first time, students will be able to start here, too.”
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