Founded by the state legislature in 1972 to provide primary care physicians to small towns and rural areas of Oklahoma, the Center for Health Sciences merged with Oklahoma State University in 1988.

Today, the OSU Center for Health Sciences educates osteopathic physicians, research scientists and other health care professionals with emphasis on serving rural and under-served Oklahoma. The center and medical college is one of five campuses in the OSU system and is located on the banks of the Arkansas River near downtown Tulsa.

The OSU Center for Health Sciences trains student osteopathic physicians, interns, residents and fellows through its Tulsa campus, clinics, affiliated teaching hospital, and facilities across Oklahoma and neighboring states.

As a professional medical college, OSU offers the following degrees:


Since its inception, the College has graduated 2,240 physicians with about two-thirds in primary care. The remaining one-third of DOs practice in a range of specialties, from dermatology to neurology, surgery to psychiatry, anesthesiology to gastroenterology.

Visit the OSU Center for Health Sciences website for more information on admission, academics and other information.