Skip to main content
Apply
Open Main MenuClose Main Menu

The Cowboy Code

We are all cowboys. Live the Cowboy Code.

Our Code. Our Character.

Our Cowboy family represents all 50 states and over 100 countries. What makes us Cowboys? The Code that drives everything we do.

  • We dream as big as the sky.
  • Being a cowboy isn’t in our clothes, it’s in our character.
  • We stand for what matters, even if we stand alone.
  • We end the day knowing we gave it everything we had.
  • We know challenges come with pain, but pain will not win.
  • We have a passion to do what’s right, even when it’s hard.
  • We finish what we start.
Inspired by the book Cowboy Ethics: What Wall Street Can Learn from The Code of the West. © 2004 James P. Owen

The Code is Our Call.

The Cowboy Code isn’t just something we say — it’s what we do. The true measure of our Code is in how we live it every single day. From classrooms and labs to the playing fields to communities, the Cowboy family puts these principles into practice. See how Cowboys are making an impact every day.

Woman with a laptop sitting in a lecture hall with other students in the background.

Every Cowboy Answers The Call

In everything we make, do and say, we’re answering a call: to unlock possibilities, unleash ambitions and turn big dreams into great deeds. At Oklahoma State University, your gift is more than generosity, it’s groundbreaking and sky-scraping, changing Cowboys’ lives for good.

MENUCLOSE