Oxy Facts

• Founded in 1887, a private, coeducational liberal arts college
• Ranked as one of the country's top colleges by U.S. News & World Report, Fiske, Kaplan/Newsweek, and other college guides
• Applications have grown 185 percent since 1997 to more than 5,000 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

• 1,839 students from 45 states, the District of Columbia and 26 countries
• 70 percent of students live on campus
• Ranked as one of the country's most diverse liberal arts colleges
• 57 percent women, 43 percent men
• 7 percent African American
• 14 percent Asian American
• 62  percent Caucasian
• 16 percent Latino/a
• 1 percent Native American

Faculty profile

• 145 full-time faculty
• 6 percent African-American
• 10 percent Asian-American
• 6 percent Latino/a
• 42 percent women, 58 percent men

Admission and Financial Aid

• This year, we received more than 5,200 applications for approximately 445 spaces in the Class of 2010
• Almost three-quarters of our students receive some form of financial aid
• The average financial aid package for students in 2004-05 was $27,311
• Occidental enrolls more low-income students than most other nationally ranked liberal arts college
• Students who are the first in their family to attend college make up 17 percent of the student body