Colleges in Oklahoma With the Highest Graduate Earnings
Graduate earnings are bunched together in Oklahoma. The 26 four-year colleges we rank range only from $42,786 to $79,396, just $36,610 apart.
The median college sits at $55,174, which is $4,230 (7%) below the national median of $59,403. Public colleges (17) have a median of $53,649 and private nonprofit colleges (8) a median of $61,501, and the typical net price across the list is $14,730.
University of Tulsa ranks first at $79,396, ahead of University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus ($73,280) and Oklahoma Christian University ($67,575).
How this list is built
A college appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Colleges considered
- All 4-year colleges (public, private nonprofit and for-profit)
- Ranked by earnings after 4 years, highest first. Ties are broken by larger undergraduate enrollment, then by name.
- Main campuses only, with at least 60% of core data fields reported
- Main campus located in Oklahoma
- At least 500 undergraduate students enrolled (fall 2024)
- A reported earnings after 4 years value (schools without one are not ranked)
- This page is published only when at least 15 schools qualify; Oklahoma has 26
- Data period
- Earnings: median earnings four years after completing, measured in 2022 and 2023 for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 cohorts, in 2024 dollars.
- Net price: average for students receiving aid, academic year 2023-24.
- Graduate debt: median federal loan debt of completers, pooled 2020 and 2021 cohorts.
- Graduation rate: first-time, full-time students who started in fall 2018 (4-year) or fall 2021 (2-year), finishing within 150% of normal time.
- Enrollment: undergraduate students, fall 2024.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, June 2026 release.
Showing all 26 qualifying schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table.
| 1 | University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK Private nonprofit · 4-year | $79,396 | $15,000 | $21,500 | 73% | 2,813 |
| 2 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK Public · 4-year | $73,280 | $15,300 | $20,654 | 75% | 22,734 |
| 3 | Oklahoma Christian University Edmond, OK Private nonprofit · 4-year | $67,575 | $21,872 | $26,000 | 55% | 1,885 |
| 4 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Stillwater, OK Public · 4-year | $65,492 | $17,447 | $20,500 | 67% | 21,773 |
| 5 | Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology Okmulgee, OK Public · 4-year | $65,328 | $10,999 | $11,334 | 42% | 2,028 |
| 6 | Oklahoma City University Oklahoma City, OK Private nonprofit · 4-year | $64,450 | $22,857 | $20,835 | 65% | 1,514 |
| 7 | Oklahoma Wesleyan University Bartlesville, OK Private nonprofit · 4-year | $62,310 | $28,358 | $24,813 | 32% | 673 |
| 8 | Southern Nazarene University Bethany, OK Private nonprofit · 4-year | $60,691 | $22,084 | $21,900 | 50% | 1,455 |
| 9 | Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology (OK) Tulsa, OK For-profit · 4-year | $59,016 | $29,776 | $16,750 | 57% | 840 |
| 10 | Southwestern Oklahoma State University Weatherford, OK Public · 4-year | $57,954 | $14,459 | $15,954 | 37% | 3,514 |
| 11 | Oklahoma Panhandle State University Goodwell, OK Public · 4-year | $56,708 | $7,413 | $12,500 | 23% | 917 |
| 12 | Southeastern Oklahoma State University Durant, OK Public · 4-year | $56,329 | $8,039 | $17,000 | 32% | 3,018 |
| 13 | Mid-America Christian University Oklahoma City, OK Private nonprofit · 4-year | $55,200 | $16,692 | $26,394 | 40% | 1,666 |
| 14 | Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, OK Public · 4-year | $55,147 | $7,081 | $14,250 | 14% | 3,514 |
| 15 | Oral Roberts University Tulsa, OK Private nonprofit · 4-year | $54,666 | $25,365 | $27,000 | 56% | 3,487 |
| 16 | University of Central Oklahoma Edmond, OK Public · 4-year | $54,402 | $18,309 | $21,000 | 37% | 10,170 |
| 17 | East Central University Ada, OK Public · 4-year | $53,649 | $8,683 | $17,671 | 34% | 2,467 |
| 18 | Rogers State University Claremore, OK Public · 4-year | $53,237 | $15,314 | $20,500 | 27% | 2,657 |
| 19 | Rose State College Midwest City, OK Public · 4-year | $53,127 | $12,148 | $10,453 | 20% | 4,953 |
| 20 | Northwestern Oklahoma State University Alva, OK Public · 4-year | $51,228 | $10,104 | $17,355 | 33% | 1,498 |
| 21 | Northeastern State University Tahlequah, OK Public · 4-year | $50,752 | $12,710 | $17,367 | 36% | 4,772 |
| 22 | Oklahoma Baptist University Shawnee, OK Private nonprofit · 4-year | $49,999 | $20,958 | $24,801 | 51% | 1,308 |
| 23 | Langston University Langston, OK Public · 4-year | $49,961 | $11,504 | $26,000 | 17% | 1,742 |
| 24 | Murray State College Tishomingo, OK Public · 4-year | $49,179 | $12,844 | $13,387 | 27% | 1,786 |
| 25 | Cameron University Lawton, OK Public · 4-year | $48,413 | $10,912 | $21,500 | 26% | 2,492 |
| 26 | University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Chickasha, OK Public · 4-year | $42,786 | $6,624 | $21,750 | 41% | 941 |
How to compare these colleges
High earnings partly reflect who enrolls and what they study: engineering, nursing and business programs usually pay more than education or the arts, so a school with strong health or technical programs can top the list. Read the earnings next to net price, debt and graduation rate, because earnings count only people who finished, and four years after graduation is early in a career.
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