Oakland University is a public co-founded by Matilda Dodge Wilson and John A. Hannah, of which 1500 hectares campus is located partly in Rochester Hills and partly in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the only major research university in Oakland County, from which derives its name OR. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified as an OR intensive doctoral research at the University. Oakland University was created in 1957, when Mathilde Dodge Wilson, widow of automobile magnate John Francis Dodge and her second husband Alfred Wilson donated their 1,500 - acre (6.1 km) estate to Michigan State University, including Meadow Brook Hall, Sunset Terrace and other buildings all properties and collections, and two million dollars. main campus buildings have been made near Squirrel Road in Pontiac Township (now the city of Auburn Hills).Originally known as Michigan State University-Oakland, the University welcomed its first students in 1959 and was renamed Oakland University in 1963. The University was officially independent since 1970. Wilson asked Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield United States to let the university use a Rochester, Michigan, postal address, even if
