Spears School of Business

The Spears School of Business (or Spears School) is the business component of Oklahoma State University. Located in Stillwater, Okla., the Spears School is composed of seven academic departments with more than 100 tenure and tenure-track educational professionals. The college’s student body is made up of nearly 4,000 undergraduate students pursuing 15 degree fields and approximately 800 graduate students studying in seven different master's degree programs. The Spears School also offers several Ph.D. programs, including business administration, economics and the new Ph.D. in Business for Executives.

Academic programs at the Spears School are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business since 1958. Currently, the Spears School ranks in the top 15.5 percent of business schools, according to the 2011 rankings by the U.S. News and World Report.

Oklahoma State University is a comprehensive university with instructional, research, and outreach missions. OSU is composed of four campuses and extensive off-campus instructional and assistance programs. The combined enrollment for these locations exceeds 28,000 students. The Stillwater campus has an enrollment of more than 20,000 students and a full-time faculty of more than 900. Seven percent of undergraduate enrollment and 17 percent of graduate enrollment comes from more than 90 foreign countries.

It was almost as if they made “the run” to establish a college; it happened so fast. The Land Run of 1889, as every Oklahoman knows, refers to the event that took place on April 22, 1889. When the signaling shot was fired, more than 50,000 people with little money, high hopes and enormous courage descended in a mad competitive rush to stake claims on land that was later to become a part of the state of Oklahoma. Stillwater, the home of Oklahoma State University and the Spears School of Business, was included in that area. The very next year, the hardy souls who settled in Stillwater saw the founding bill passed for the organization of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of the Territory of Oklahoma – the school that later became Oklahoma State University.

The establishment of the college was made possible by the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, which granted 30,000 acres to each eligible state for the establishment of colleges. In 1890, a second Morrill Act was passed, granting “a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862” (Clark, para. 1). In time, the purpose the land-grant colleges expanded. Now, the purpose of the colleges is threefold: to teach, conduct research and perform outreach activities.

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