OU
# OU

OU or Ou or ou may stand for:

## Universities

### United States

* Oakland University in Oakland County, Michigan
* Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama
* Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia
* Ohio University in Athens, Ohio
* Olivet University in San Francisco, California
* University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma

### Japan

* Osaka University, a national research university
* Okayama University, a national university
* Onomichi City University, a public university in Hiroshima Prefecture
* Otemae University, a private university in Hyogo Prefecture
* Ohu University, a private university in Fukushima Prefecture

### Other countries

* Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong, previously the Open University of Hong Kong
* Osnabrück University, Germany
* Open University, United Kingdom
* Open University of Mauritius, Mauritius
* Osmania University, India
* University of Otago, New Zealand
* University of Ottawa, Canada
* University of Oxford, United Kingdom

## Language and writing

* Ou (digraph)
* Ou (ligature), the ligature ȣ in the Latin and Greek alphabets
* Uk (Cyrillic), 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), 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
   * Ohu University

## Organizations

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

## Other uses

* ʻŌʻū, a bird (Psittirostra psittacea)
* 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 competitive Pokémon tiering
* One Utama, or 1 Utama
