Undergraduate Costs

Oklahoma City University seeks to be transparent when it comes to cost of attendance. The figures below help provide an estimate for you to plan and prepare for how you will pay for your undergraduate degree program. Note that billable expenses, like tuition and fees, and discretionary expenses, like transportation and miscellaneous personal costs, are subject to change and are listed here for the 2024-25 academic year. Some costs, like housing and food for students living off-campus, are provided for illustrative purposes and may not apply to each student. Visit the OCU Office of Financial Aid page for additional details or questions about paying for school. 

So how much does an OCU education cost? Thanks to generous scholarships and grants that a majority of students receive, it may be less than you think!

Cost Details

Annual Block Tuition ($29,804) covers 12-16 credit hours (CHs) per semester. Students taking 17 or more CHs per semester are charged the regular per-credit-hour tuition cost ($1,009) per additional credit hour over 16 CHs. Students taking fewer than 12 credit hours per semester are charged $1,009 per credit hour. Note that the per-credit-hour tuition rate for undergraduate Maymester courses and for undergraduate students age 55 and older is $350. These per-credit-hour costs do not include any general or individual course-specific fees. The general per-credit-hour university fee is $165. The estimated undergraduate per-credit-hour cost for books is $75. Housing price is for a double room in Walker Hall. Meal plan price is for Meal Plan C. Scholarships and need-based grants are the annual average for fall 2023 first-year students who qualified. 

Listed below are estimated billable costs (will be charged to a student's bursar account) and potential additional estimated discretionary costs per academic year (fall and spring semester) for various classifications of undergraduate students. These do not consider any scholarship and financial aid deductions students many receive. Note that few OCU students pay the full cost of attendance. More than 90% of OCU students receive scholarships and other types of financial assistance.

*Housing and food figures for on-campus students represent an estimate of annual costs. Housing rates and meal plan costs vary by residence hall, room style and meal plan choice. More information can be found here. Figures for students living off-campus are an illustrative estimate and will vary based on students' living arrangements.

**The annual estimated cost of books ($2,250) is not applied toward billable costs for students who opt out of the university's Slingshot (bookstore) automatic textbook service. Students may opt out by logging into their OCU Slingshot account and updating their preferences.

***Students are not required to purchase university-provided health-insurance coverage, but must opt out of coverage in order to avoid the billable cost of $2,650 each academic year.