Editor’s note: For back-to-school this year, we are launching a new biweekly education column featuring notes and news about Oklahoma schools and educators. This is the first edition. For tips about news to include in future editions, email reporter Murray Evans at [email protected].
Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma both are defying a national enrollment cliff, with each reporting a record freshman enrollment.
OSU reported 36,934 students enrolled across the OSU system – which includes campuses in Stillwater, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Okmulgee – on the first day of classes for the 2025-26 academic year. That total broke the previous system record, set in 2013. The almost 5,200 freshmen enrolled at the main Stillwater campus gave OSU a fourth-straight year of record-setting freshman enrollment…