Celebrating more than a century of service as Oklahoma's only public liberal arts college, the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma is a recognized leader and innovator in interdisciplinary studies. Like the best private liberal arts colleges, Science & Arts offers small classes, award-winning faculty committed to teaching, and a campus culture that fosters close faculty-student interaction and undergraduate research opportunities. Science & Arts dedicates itself to educating the whole student, encourages personal development through public service, and offers nationally ranked teams in 13 sports. The college was founded in 1908 as a women's institution, the first college created by Oklahoma's first Legislature. Science & Arts is one of only seven state institutions with similar missions ever created in the United States. Located in Chickasha, Science & Arts is the only Oklahoma college to be named a National Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.