Oregon State University

Oregon State University is a public land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, founded in 1868. It is Oregon's land-grant campus and also holds sea-grant, space-grant, and sun-grant designations. The main campus is a large site in a small Willamette Valley city, with the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport as a coastal laboratory.

Colleges include agricultural sciences; business; earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences; education; engineering; forestry; liberal arts; pharmacy; public health and human sciences; science; and veterinary medicine. Graduate work is associated with forestry, oceanography, agriculture, engineering, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. Research forests, experiment stations, and the Hatfield center are field sites.

Enrollment is about 35,000, including a large Ecampus distance cohort; the Corvallis on-campus population is smaller. International students are a modest share from many countries. Faculty, including extension and research staff, number in the thousands. Alumni include chemist Linus Pauling and computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart.

Graduate degrees include MS, MA, professional master's awards, PharmD, DVM, and PhD programs that combine coursework and thesis or dissertation research. Oregon State uses the quarter calendar. Research and teaching assistantships support many doctoral students. Corvallis is a compact college town; marine-science students also work on the coast at Newport.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Oregon State University lists 12 graduate programs across 11 subjects: 4 master's programs and 8 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in robotics, agriculture, food & forestry and chemical engineering.