Oxy Facts

  • Founded in 1887, a private, coeducational, residential college of the liberal arts and sciences
  • Ranked as one of the country's top colleges by U.S. News & World Report, Fiske, Princeton Review, and other college guides
  • Applications have doubled since 1998 to more than 6,000 annually
  • One of the country's few major liberal arts colleges located in a big city
  • 120-acre Eagle Rock campus opened in 1914
  • 28,500 living alumni

Student profile

  • 2,102 students from 42 states, the District of Columbia and 26 countries
  • 80 percent of students live on campus in 13 residence halls
  • Ranked as one of the country's most diverse liberal arts colleges
  • 57 percent women, 43 percent men
  • 5.6 percent African American
  • 16.2 percent Asian American
  • 56.7 percent Caucasian
  • 14.1 percent Hispanics of any race
  • 1.8 percent Native American or Alaska Native
  • 0.6 percent Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
  • 2.5 percent race and ethnicity unknown
  • 2.6 percent international  

Faculty profile

  • 169 full-time faculty
  • 30 percent are people of color 
  • 48 percent women, 52 percent men

Admission and Financial Aid

  • In 2011, we received more than 6,100 applications for approximately 455 spaces in the Class of 2015
  • Three-quarters of our students receive some form of financial aid
  • The average financial aid package for students in 2009-10 was $31,883
  • Occidental enrolls more low-income students than most other nationally ranked liberal arts colleges. Some 24 percent of the student body receive federal Pell Grants 
  • Students who are the first in their family to attend college make up 19 percent of the student body