Oregon State University: Invent your Future

Your path to career-making research starts here at Oregon State University. Our pioneering programs make life-changing discoveries like the artificial heart valve and the next generation of robots. Get West Coast career connections through your field expert faculty and earning your degree near major headquarters like HP and Nike.

There’s a reason many of our engineering programs land in the top 100. Our No. 72 best undergraduate engineering program and four top 50 graduate engineering programs in the US, according to U.S. News & World Report 2022 combine groundbreaking research with work experience through MECOP (multiple engineering co-op program), prestigious paid internships sponsored by Oregon industries.

Go outside the classroom to preserve our planet. Graduate from leading environmental science programs like our globally ranked top 5 Oceanography program by Shanghai Rankings 2021. Add invaluable experience to your résumé in our nearby research forests and oceanography expeditions to the ends of the world.

Oregon State University has nearly 450M in research funding, with state-of-the-art facilities like the Wave Research Laboratory and CoRIS, our Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute. At our business school, first-year students collaborate on their own micro-business with real money and profits to gain competitive skills for the job market.

Our future-focused programs translate into career-ready graduates. At Oregon State, we have the top 15% best-paid graduates in the US, according to Payscale College Salary Report 2019. If you’re looking to gain work experience in the US, our team has helped 581 of our students participate in OPT and CPT in 2019.

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