Oklahoma Baptist University
Oklahoma Baptist University is a private Baptist university in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It was established in 1910 under the original name of The Baptist University of Oklahoma. OBU is owned and was founded by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma.Photo: kennethaw88, CC BY 4.0.
- Type: University
- Description: university
- Also known as: “OBU” and “The Baptist University of Oklahoma”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Shawnee Regional Airport and Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art.
Shawnee Regional Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Gigrantula, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shawnee Regional Airport is two miles northwest of Shawnee, in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. It was formerly Shawnee Municipal Airport. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation facility.
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art
Museum
Photo: Casadevida, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art is a non-profit art museum in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. It is located on the former Oklahoma Baptist University Green Campus, being the campus of the former St. Gregory's University. Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art is situated 1½ miles west of Oklahoma Baptist University.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shawnee and Johnson.
Shawnee
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Shawnee is in the Frontier Country region of Oklahoma. While normally not on the sight-seeing itinerary of those who do not know someone already living there, Shawnee could prove to be an interesting day trip.
Johnson
Village
Johnson is a town in north-central Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Johnson had a population of 457. Johnson is situated 6 miles northeast of Oklahoma Baptist University.
Oklahoma Baptist University
- Categories: private not-for-profit educational institution, church college, and education
- Location: Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.36063° or 35° 21′ 38″ northLongitude
-96.93113° or 96° 55′ 52″ westElevation
1,083 feet (330 metres)Open location code
86759369+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 357400284OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=university
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Oklahoma Baptist University” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Oklahoma Baptist University”
- Catalan: “Universitat Baptista d’Oklahoma”
- Chinese: “俄克拉荷馬浸信大學”
- Chinese: “奥克拉荷玛浸会大学”
- Chinese: “奧克拉荷瑪浸會大學”
- Chinese: “奧克拉荷馬浸信大學”
- Esperanto: “Oklahoma Baptisma Universitato”
- Finnish: “Oklahoman baptistinen yliopisto”
- French: “Université baptiste de l’Oklahoma”
- Hebrew: “האוניברסיטה הבפטיסטית של אוקלהומה”
- Japanese: “オクラホマ・バプティスト大学”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oklahoma Baptist University”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oklahoma Baptist University”
- Portuguese: “Universidade Batista de Oklahoma”
- Russian: “Баптистский университет Оклахомы”
- Spanish: “Universidad Bautista de Oklahoma”
- Swedish: “Oklahoma Baptist University”
- Urdu: “اوکلاہوما بیپٹسٹ یونیورسٹی”
- Venetian: “Università Bautista de Oklahoma”
- “Oklahoma Baptist”
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