OU or Ou or ou may stand for:

Universities

United States

* Oakland University in Oakland County, Michigan *

Oakwood University Oakwood University is a private, historically black Seventh-day Adventist university in Huntsville, Alabama. It is the only HBCU owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Oakwood University is accredited by the Southern Associati ...

in Huntsville, Alabama *

Oglethorpe University Oglethorpe University is a private college in Brookhaven, Georgia. It was chartered in 1835 and named in honor of General James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of the Colony of Georgia. History Oglethorpe University was chartered in 1834 in Mid ...

in Atlanta, Georgia *

Ohio University Ohio University is a public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation and subseq ...

in Athens, Ohio *

Olivet University Olivet University is a private Christian institution of biblical higher education located in Anza, California. It is accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) to award Certificates, Bachelor's, Master's, D. Min. and P ...

in San Francisco, California *

University of Oklahoma , mottoeng = "For the benefit of the Citizen and the State" , type = Public research university , established = , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.7billion (2021) , pr ...

in Norman, Oklahoma

Japan

* Osaka University, a national research university *

Okayama University is a national university in Japan. The main campus is located in Tsushima-Naka, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture. The school was founded in 1870 and it was established as a university in 1949. History Okayama University was originally founded as t ...

, a national university *

Onomichi City University is a municipal university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in state ownership, owned by the state or receives significant government spending, public funds through a national or subnational government, ...

, a public university in Hiroshima Prefecture *

Otemae University Otemae University ( ja, 大手前大学 Ōtemae Daigaku) is a liberal arts oriented school that began in 1946. It is in the Kansai region of Japan and has three campuses: one in Itami, one in Osaka, and a co-educational university in Nishinomi ...

, a private university in Hyogo Prefecture *

Ohu University is a private university, located in the city of Kōriyama is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 322,996 people in 141760 households, and a population density of 430 persons per km2. The total are ...

, a private university in Fukushima Prefecture

Other countries

Hong Kong Metropolitan University Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) is a university in Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong. Established as the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong by the Hong Kong government in 1989, HKMU now consists of five schools, namely the School of Arts and So ...

, Hong Kong, previously the Open University of Hong Kong *

Osnabrück University Osnabrück University (german: Universität Osnabrück) is a public research university located in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2011 it was attended by 11,034 students; the staff of 1,858 consisted of 209 professors, 936 ...

, Germany *

Open University The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...

, United Kingdom * Open University of Mauritius, Mauritius *

Osmania University Osmania University is a collegiate university, collegiate Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farma ...

, India *

University of Otago , image_name = University of Otago Registry Building2.jpg , image_size = , caption = University clock tower , motto = la, Sapere aude , mottoeng = Dare to be wise , established = 1869; 152 years ago , type = Public research collegiate ...

, New Zealand *

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottaw ...

, Canada *

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, United Kingdom

Language and writing

Ou (digraph) This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ''). Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...

* Ou (ligature), the ligature ȣ in the Latin and Greek alphabets *

Uk (Cyrillic) Similar letters: Uk (Ѹ ѹ; italics: ''Ѹ ѹ'') is a digraph of the early Cyrillic alphabet, although commonly considered and used as a single letter. It is an accent nasal vowel from Slavonic language. To save space, it was often wri ...

, the Cyrillic letter Ꙋ, derived from the ''ou'' ligature *OU, an abbreviation for Old Ukrainian, an aspect of the Ruthenian language from the 11th to the 14th century

Surnames

O (surname) O or Oh is a family name in Korea. It is written using the hanja characters, 吳, 五, 伍, 吾, and 晤. According to the 2015 census in South Korea, there were 763,281 people carrying the O surname. History O also spelled Oh (Hangul: ) is t ...

, anglicized as Ō, (王), a Japanese family name * Ou (surname) (區 or 歐), a Chinese family name

Geography

* Nam Ou, a river in Laos * Ōu (奥羽), a synonym of Tōhoku region, Japan ** Ōu Mountains ** Ōu Main Line **

Organizations

* Croatia Airlines (IATA code OU) * Orthodox Union (Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America) * Our Ukraine (political party)

Other uses

* ʻŌʻū, Ōū, a bird (''Psittirostra psittacea'') * ''Eyeglass prescription#Abbreviations and terms, oculi uterque'', Latin for ''both eyes'', in eyeglass prescriptions * Organizational Unit in computing, particularly in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) * Over unity, a phrase related to perpetual motion * "Overused", in Gameplay of Pokémon, competitive Pokémon tiering * One Utama, or 1 Utama {{disambiguation, geo