More than 70 undergraduate majors are offered, as well as 20 graduate degrees, including a JD, MBA, MFA, and PhD in Nursing.

When the United States entered World War II, the school faced new challenges, including mounting debt and a need for new facilities.

This created a shortage of players and funds causing many of the athletic programs, such as the football team, to end operations.

[7] After the war, enrollment increased dramatically and the university began a period of rapid development through the remainder of the 1940s.

[7] The university then took control of the Oklahoma City College of Law and began a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to elevate the academics and the quality of education.

[7] The Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel was dedicated in 1968 as part of a plan to expand OCU's spiritual life.

[7] After requesting that people direct their prayers and pledges to the university, by 1980 the Methodist Church had raised more than $3 million.

[7] Jerald Walker, an OCU alumnus, became president in 1979 and continued the university's growth stemming from the financial support from the Church.

Under Jennings, OCU team names were changed from the Chiefs to the Stars and the university expanded student life, including the Distinguished Speakers Series.

[7] Robert Harlan Henry, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, became the university's 17th president in July 2010, succeeding Tom McDaniel.

[9] During Henry's tenure, the university has moved the OCU School of Law to an historic location in downtown Oklahoma City, renovated several academic facilities, and launched a Physician Assistant program.

Prominent campus buildings include the Gold Star Memorial Building (School of Religion, Honors College, School of Theater ), Clara Jones Administration Building, Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel, Sarkeys Science and Mathematics Center, Edith Kinney Gaylord Center (housing the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment), Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Building, Dulaney-Browne Library, McDaniel University Center, Meinders School of Business and Henry K. Freede Wellness and Activity Center.

The 38 million dollar state-of-the-art 113,000 sq ft (10,500 m2) Wanda L. Bass Music Center was opened in April 2006.

The Kerr-McGee Centennial Plaza on the southeast corner of the campus was constructed in 2004 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of OCU.

[15] The plaza features bronze statues honoring OCU's three Miss America pageant winners.

Housing options on the campus of Oklahoma City University include dormitories, the Greek system for men, and on-campus apartments.

Walker Hall, OCU's only high-rise dorm at seven stories, offers coed housing for freshmen.

Draper Hall is a coed dorm for upperclassman and freshmen overflow, featuring suite style rooms.

[20] OCU is the only Oklahoma institution listed in the top tier of the master level university category by U.S. News & World Report magazine's "America's Best Colleges" issue.

Its basketball tradition spans the glory days of legendary coaches Abe Lemons, Paul Hansen, and Doyle Parrack.

Opportunities for cultural enrichment and entertainment on the OCU campus include concerts, play performances, operas, films, sporting events, and seminars by world-renowned speakers and business leaders.

Guest speakers at OCU have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel prize winner Elie Wiesel, author Kurt Vonnegut, playwright Edward Albee, researcher Jane Goodall, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Sister Helen Prejean, educator and author Jonathan Kozol, Poets Laureate Ted Kooser and Billy Collins, civil rights attorney Morris Dees, journalists Helen Thomas and George Will, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and politician Karen Hughes.

Students have access to a full-size exercise facility, the Aduddell Center, located next to Centennial Hall.

The Scarab is a student anthology of writing and art, including non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and photography, published by OCU's chapter of the international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta and winner of the society's 2003–2004 award for Literary Arts Journal of the year.