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Highlights: Situated atop the Cumberland Plateau between Nashville and Chattanooga; the University of the South campus is known as The Domain; Eastern Star Cemetery; university-owned coffee shop located in a yellow Victorian house; on-campus inn.

Notable quote: “A confluence of merit, minds and mission with a century of history, ESF stands alone in its balanced dedication.” — SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Notable quote: “More than 37,000 students from all 50 states and 130 countries, along with some 850 student organizations and Big Ten Boilermaker athletics, make for a lively environment.” — homeofpurdue.comLawnStarter makes lawn care easy, affordable, and reliable. Follow this blog to stay up to date with what you need to keep your lawn in tip-top shape year-round.

Highlights: The U.S. Air Force Academy boasts an iconic aluminum, glass, and steel chapel with 17 spires; winding roads through forests; 27-acre garden.

Highlights: Natural features such as woodlands, meadows, and streams; 47 main buildings, including 15 classroom facilities and 10 residence halls; wildlife sanctuary; plantation house; working mill with waterwheel; film set for productions including “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Remember the Titans.”

Notable quote: “Soaring 150 feet toward the Colorado sky, the Air Force Academy [Cadet] Chapel is an all-faiths house of worship designed to meet the spiritual needs of cadets. It contains a separate chapel for four major religious faiths — Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Buddhist — plus an all-faiths room used by Muslim cadets and available for members of the other faiths as well.” — Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors BureauNotable quote: “We strive to preserve our way and our values to be a universal example that connections of people with people and of people with environments is at the heart of education.” — Paul Smiths College website

Notable quote: “Of the buildings on campus, Ford Auditorium, an English gothic-inspired building with a clock tower and reflecting pool, is the most eye-catching.” — Thrillist

When you think of the biggest college campus in the U.S., think small – really small. Tiny Berry College in northwest Georgia is our reigning champ with the most acres and one of the smallest student bodies.

Berry College, tucked into the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, covers more than 27,000 acres — nearly twice the land area of Manhattan. Not surprisingly, Berry College boasts not only the largest contiguous college campus in the U.S., but the largest one in the world.

Highlights: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry hosts a seven-day event called Earth Week; students log in more than 70,000 service hours annually; easy access to Syracuse University.Notable quote: “Berklee was founded on two revolutionary ideas: that musicianship could be taught through the music of the time; and that our students need practical, professional skills for successful, sustainable music careers.” — Berklee College of Music website

The OU men’s basketball team is coached by Greg Kampe, who is now among the top ten longest-serving coaches in the NCAA Division I ranks. OU qualified for the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship tournament for the first time in 2005. The Golden Grizzlies defeated Alabama A&M University in the opening-round game at Dayton, Ohio on March 15, 2005, before being eliminated three days later by the North Carolina Tar Heels, who went on to win the National Championship.

Oakland University won ten national NCAA Division II titles and 16 teams were national runner-up in NCAA Division II. Men’s swimming and diving won five championships and finished as runner-up 10 times. Five women’s swimming and diving teams also finished first and three came in second. The men’s soccer team was NCAA Division II runner-up in 1986, 1994, and 1996.In 2007 the OU Athletics Administration announced a marketing and sponsorship partnership with Palace Sports and Entertainment, which owns and operates the nearby The Palace of Auburn Hills, as well as the Detroit Pistons.The Oakland men’s club ice hockey team won the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Division 2 national championship in 2004, was national runner-up in 2005, and in 2006 again won the Division 2 championship. The team moved up to ACHA Division 1 for the 2006–07 season and won the national championship over Penn State University by a score of 5–1. In addition, the Grizzlies career scoring leader, Will McMahon, was named tournament and regular season MVP after tallying 47 goals and 29 assists in 36 games (including playoffs). McMahon finished his career with four ACHA National Player of the Year awards with career totals of 240 goals and 140 assists (380 total points). McMahon was signed by the Fort Wayne Komets of the IHL following his final season (2007) making him the first Grizzly to sign in a professional hockey league. The team is currently coached by former Ferris State men’s ice hockey player Nick Field, who led Oakland to a 12–15–3 record in his first season. The Grizzlies currently compete in the Great Lakes Collegiate Hockey League conference. The women’s soccer team at OU is coached by Juan Pablo Favero. In addition to making the NCAA Division I tournament in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2006, the team qualified again in 2007. They lost to Purdue University, 4–0, in the first round of the tournament on November 16, 2007. Nearly two dozen OU players have gone on to play professional basketball. After being among the top ten scorers in all of NCAA Division I basketball in 2003 and 2004, Mike Helms was drafted into the Continental Basketball Association and played briefly for the Michigan Mayhem, in addition to playing in the National Basketball League of Australia, where he finished second in the league in scoring in 2006. His OU teammate, Kelly Williams, who is Filipino American, was the No. 1 overall draft pick in the 2006 Philippine Basketball Association draft and was named the league’s Rookie of the Year in 2007. Rawle Marshall, who led OU to its first NCAA tournament berth in 2005, became the first player from the university to make a National Basketball Association (NBA) roster, playing in 23 games for the Dallas Mavericks in the 2005–06 season and 40 games for the Indiana Pacers in the 2006–07 season. In the 2011 NBA draft the Atlanta Hawks selected All-American and Lou Henson Award winner Keith Benson in the second round (48th pick) making Benson the first basketball player from Oakland to be drafted by an NBA team. Kay Felder left Oakland a season early as a junior and was drafted in the second round of the 2016 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks, who traded him to the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers for cash considerations.In 2011, Oakland won the Summit League regular season and tournament for the second consecutive season and again received a 14 seed. This time, they played No. 3 Texas, where they lost 85–81.

Brian Gregory, Oakland’s career assist leader, played under Kampe from 1987–90 before beginning a coaching career. He was an assistant under Tom Izzo when Michigan State University won the 2000 NCAA title, and is now the head coach for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men’s basketball team.

The men’s soccer team at OU will be coached by Eric Pogue, starting in the 2009 season. Pogue was an assistant under Gary Parsons for seven years. Parsons coached Oakland for 28 years and accumulated 363 wins in his coaching career, and made the NCAA Division I tournament on multiple occasions. Another of Parsons’ former players, Jason Perry, will serve as an assistant to Pogue. In 2004, Perry was drafted by the Los Angeles Galaxy in the third round of the Major League Soccer draft.The Golden Grizzlies women’s team won five consecutive NCAA Division II national championships from 1990–1994. They were runners-up the following three seasons (1995–1997). Through 2018, the team has won 31 conference meets, 8 in the GLIAC, 4 in the National Independent Conference (NIC), 14 in The Summit League and 5 in the Horizon League. The team won every Summit League (14) and Horizon League (5) conference meet, 4 of the 8 NIC conference meets, and 8 of the 9 GLIAC conference meets it participated in. They have currently won 24 consecutive conference tournaments.Both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams at Oakland are coached by Pete Hovland. Hovland began coaching the men’s team in 1981–82. He took over the women’s program in 2001 and has been coaching the two since.Oakland’s men’s team has won five NCAA Division II national championships (1980, 1994–1997) and were runners-up 10 times (1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987–1991, 1993). Through 2018, the men’s team has won 40 consecutive conference meets, including every GLIAC (21), Summit League (14) and Horizon League (5) conference meet the team has participated in.The Golden Grizzlies first joined a Division I conference in 1998 when they joined the Mid-Continent Conference (now known as The Summit League). Oakland joined the Horizon League July 1, 2013.

The Oakland University Golden Grizzlies are the athletic teams that represent Oakland University (OU) in the Horizon League and Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The school fields 16 teams: baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s soccer, softball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, women’s tennis, men’s and women’s track, and women’s volleyball.On March 7, 2006, the women’s basketball team defeated Western Illinois University to capture the 2006 Mid-Continent title. On March 19, in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the No. 16 Grizzlies lost to No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes 68–45.

Early in the history of Oakland University (OU), academic excellence was stressed at the expense of competitive intercollegiate athletics. While the focus on academic excellence has continued and expanded, the university has also come to recognize the importance of intercollegiate athletics. Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, OU competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) as the Pioneers, becoming a perennial powerhouse in numerous sports and winning multiple National Championships in men’s and women’s swimming. During the transition to NCAA Division I status in 1998–99, OU’s sports teams became the Golden Grizzlies.

Tracy Huth served as athletic director from 2006–2014. He stepped down on January 24, 2014. Robby Stewart is serving as interim athletic director until a replacement is found.

OU’s baseball team is led by head coach Colin Kaline. This follows a stretch where OU had co-head coaches, Kaline and Jacke Healey. Kaline is the grandson of Detroit Tigers Baseball Hall of Famer Al Kaline. The baseball program has produced nearly two dozen players who have gone on to play professional baseball, with two advancing to Major League Baseball, Don Kirkwood, who pitched for the California Angels, the Chicago White Sox, and the Toronto Blue Jays during his 5-year MLB career (1974-1978), and Mike Brosseau, who debuted in 2019 as a utility man for the Tampa Bay Rays.In the 2010–11 season, Oakland narrowly lost 77–76 to then-No. 7 Michigan State before beating then-No. 7 University of Tennessee 89–82. In the 2011–12 season, Oakland beat Tennessee for the second year in a row 89–81.

In fall of 2012, Oakland University approved a club football team. The National Club Football Association is a 26 team league that uses the majority of NCAA rules. The Golden Grizzlies compete in the Great Lakes Conference of the NCFA. OU plays teams such as Ohio State, Miami (OH), UW-Milwaukee, and Wright State club football teams, as well as a varsity teams in Concordia (Ann Arbor), Olivet, and Defiance. The first season received attention from NFL Film’s “Together We Make Football.” Their first season concluded with a 5-2 record and #8 in the league. In their second year of existence, the 2014 team went undefeated at 9-0 winning their first NCFA National Championship. In 2016, the team achieved the perfect season in the NCFA going 12-0 and went on to win their second NCFA National Championship.Oakland University will unlock the potential of individuals and leave a lasting impact on the world through the transformative power of education and research. Oakland University cultivates the full potential of a diverse and inclusive community. As a public doctoral institution, we impact Michigan and the world through education, research, scholarship and creative activity. Die Universität wurde 1957 gegründet, nachdem Matilda Dodge Wilson, die Witwe des Automobilherstellers John Francis Dodge, und ihr zweiter Ehemann, Alfred Wilson, der Michigan State University Land vermacht hatten. Zunächst wurde sie Michigan State University-Oakland benannt; sie erhielt ihren heutigen Namen 1963. Im Jahr 1970 wurde sie völlig unabhängig.Der Wert des Stiftungsvermögens der Universität lag 2021 bei 138,7 Mio. US-Dollar und damit 35,8 % höher als im Jahr 2020, in dem es 102,2 Mio. US-Dollar betragen hatte.

Im Herbst 2021 waren 17.170 Studierende an der Oakland University eingeschrieben. Davon strebten 13.771 (80,2 %) ihren ersten Studienabschluss an, sie waren also undergraduates. Von diesen waren 58 % weiblich und 42 % männlich; 6 % bezeichneten sich als asiatisch, 8 % als schwarz/afroamerikanisch, 5 % als Hispanic/Latino und 71 % als weiß. 3.399 (19,8 %) arbeiteten auf einen weiteren Abschluss hin, sie waren graduates. Es lehrten 1.259 Dozenten an der Universität, davon 652 in Vollzeit und 607 in Teilzeit. Oakland University is ranked #331-440 out of 443 National Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Read more about how we rank schools. Online Programs in professional areas with the largest enrollments are evaluated annually by U.S. News, based on criteria such as employment outcomes of graduates.In the rankings, Oakland placed 4th in the state of Michigan and tied for 161st in the United States. The University of Oxford topped the overall rankings with Harvard University ranking second overall. The United States leads all countries with 177 institutions making the list.Oakland University has been included in the new Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2023, a ranking that analyzed data from 1,799 universities across 104 countries.

This year’s rankings were based on performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four main areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. See the full World University Rankings methodology.

These rankings also demonstrate how the global higher education landscape is shifting. The highest new entry to the list is Italy’s Humanitas University. Other news of note, China now has the fourth-highest number of institutions in the top 200 and five African countries enter the ranking for the first time (Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mauritius).

Oakland University is located in southeastern Michigan between Flint and Detroit. The 1,441-acre campus actually extends into two cities, Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, between Adams Road and Squirrel Road, just south of Walton Boulevard.Oakland University’s new West Campus (OWC) is located at 1500 University Drive, just two miles west of the main campus. You can view the exact location on Google Maps.

The Oakland University campus is located in Rochester, Michigan, a suburb about 30 miles northwest of Detroit. Undergraduates can earn degrees in more than 130 programs, and graduate students can enroll in many fields of study, including business, education, engineering and health. Classes at Oakland are usually small, often with fewer than 35 students, and only 1 percent of courses are taught by graduate assistants. Oakland University hosts hundreds of corporate employers each year to interview students, and statistics show that nearly 90 percent of Oakland students find a job within six months of graduation.* These are the average scores of applications admitted to this school. Ranges represent admitted applicants who fell within the 25th and 75th percentile.

Students at Oakland can participate in more than 200 campus organizations, Greek life and student government. Sports fans can try out for the Oakland University Golden Grizzlies varsity teams, which compete in the NCAA Division I Horizon League, or cheer with mascots Grizz and Clawzz. Notable alumni include table tennis Olympian Jasna Rather, who earned a political science degree. “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff attended Oakland University as well, but only stayed for one semester.

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Total Sports Oakland is located on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Built by the university in 2015, Oakland is a 108,000 square foot domed facility. Oakland features a full-sized 11v11 turfed field as well as two 6v6 turfed fields. The facility is managed by Total Sports so it features most Total Sport field sports offerings – soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse. It is also used by the university for track, cross country, golf, soccer, baseball, softball and club sports lacrosse and field hockey. The Oakland facility hosts nearly 250,000 visitors annually.This list of largest United States public university campuses by enrollment includes only individual four-year campuses, not four-year universities. Universities can have multiple campuses with a single administration.

We collect basic website visitor information on this website and store it in cookies. We also utilize Google Analytics to track page view information to assist us in improving our website.During that time, the Grizz Dome generator kicked on and activated fans to provide pressure for the dome to be intact and stable. It was observed by OU staff at the site that the dome was torn around the edges above the heating unit which we believe was caused by the high winds. Moreover, there was ice and a snow load on the roof. The fan unit was unable to maintain pressure to keep the dome inflated.

Oakland University athletic facility the Grizz Dome collapsed early Saturday morning. While the situation is still being assessed, OU Director of Media Relations Brian Bierley provided the following statement from the university as an update.

The dome manufacturer has been contacted to send their service team to assess the damage. The company will provide the scheduled time frame to OU. We have no cost estimate for the damage at this time.A zoomed-out photo of the Grizz Dome which collapsed early Saturday morning. The canvas is currently situated on the ground, with only doors and similar rigid features left standing upright.Multiple OU sports teams including: baseball, softball, soccer, golf, track and field and cross country all make use of the facility for practice. It is unclear at this time how the collapse of the dome will impact the baseball and softball teams as they start their seasons.

“Information is still being gathered but there was a campus wide power outage shortly after 3 a.m. It’s currently believed that the backup generator which is intended to provide continuous air pressure during outages may have not turned on, however there were also very strong wind gusts at the time which also may have been a contributing factor. Power was not restored until approximately 5:30 a.m.”“For the past two years we have learned to deal with many challenges,” Rice said. “Losing our indoor training facility a week before our indoor championships … just add it to the list. We’ll figure it out. So thankful that this happened in the middle of the night and the place was empty.”

Assistant Athletic Director for Facilities and Event Management Andy Adrianse provided the following statement concerning the incident and current state of the Grizz Dome facility: While the dome is owned by OU and located on campus, the facility is leased to private company Total Sports. The Post reached out to the main office of Total Sports about the collapse, and as of writing has not heard back. “The full extent of the damage is unknown but we are working with the Grizz Dome manufacturer to deploy a service team to the site,” Adrianse continued. “The Grizz Dome can’t simply be inflated again as there are electrical, cabling, and other structural components that were likely damaged. In the meantime we are also working to identify other solutions for the multiple varsity athletics programs and community groups that rely heavily on the space during the Winter season.”