Student Body Demographics
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The diversity of OUM’s student body is impressive, both in its range of professions and the native countries it represents. The majority of OUM students have many years of experience in the workforce, largely in healthcare professions, but also in the business world. In short, the OUM student body:
- averages 43 years of age
- is 66 % female, 34 % male
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lives primarily in Australia, Samoa, and the US.
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has earned many advanced degrees, 60 percent hold Master’s degrees and 6 percent have earned a PhD.
- OUM now has 22 graduates doing post-graduate training as active doctors in Samoa, Australia and the US.
OUM Student Birth Countries
| Australia |
Mexico |
| Canada |
New Zealand |
| Ethiopia |
Nigeria |
| Germany |
Philippines
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| Ghana |
Puerto Rico |
| Hong Kong |
Samoa |
| India |
Sierra Leone |
| Iran |
Slovenia |
| Ireland |
South Afrida |
| Ivory Coast |
St. Vincent |
| Jamaica
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USA |
Kenya
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Yugoslavia (Former) |
| Korea |
Zimbabwe |
OUM Student Professions Upon Enrollment
| Nurse Practitioner |
34% |
| Registered Nurse |
22% |
| Physician Assistant |
7% |
Chiropractor
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5% |
| Respiratory Therapist |
4% |
| Business |
4% |
| Paramedic/Ambulance Officer |
4% |
| Physical Therapist/Physiotherapist |
3% |
| Social Worker/Counselor |
3% |
| Government Employee |
2% |
| Lab Technician |
2% |
| Podiatrist |
2% |
| Radiographer |
1% |
| Student |
2% |
| Nurse Anesthetist |
1% |
| Geriatric Care |
1% |
| Massage Therapist |
1% |
| Pharmacist |
1% |
| Pilot |
1% |
While their backgrounds and professions are diverse, their visions are identical. The school’s flexible distance-learning curriculum is ideal for those individuals who have professional and family commitments but wish to study medicine and become physicians.
For more information about OUM admission requirements, please click here .
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