University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is the state's flagship public research university, in Eugene. It was founded in 1876 and developed as a liberal-arts and professional campus in the Willamette Valley. Oregon's land-grant agricultural college is Oregon State; the University of Oregon is the flagship arts-and-sciences university with professional schools in journalism, law, business, design, and education.

Colleges and schools include Arts and Sciences, the School of Journalism and Communication, the Lundquist College of Business, the School of Law, the College of Design, the College of Education, and the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. Graduate strength is associated with journalism, psychology, environmental studies, architecture, education, law, and, since the Knight Campus opened, bioengineering. The Institute of Molecular Biology and the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology at Charleston serve research students.

About 23,000 students enroll, including several thousand graduate and law students; international students number in the thousands from more than 90 countries. Alumni include Nike co-founder Phil Knight, who earned his bachelor's degree here, novelist Ken Kesey, and journalists and public officials from the Pacific Northwest.

Graduate degrees include the Ph.D., M.A. and M.S., professional master's degrees, the J.D., and degrees in design and education. The campus uses the quarter system. Doctoral work is committee-supervised after coursework and exams. Funding includes graduate employee appointments, fellowships, and Knight Campus research support. Eugene is a mid-size city at the south end of the Willamette Valley; the campus is a tree-covered precinct along the river.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Oregon lists 135 graduate programs across 37 subjects: 79 master's programs and 47 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, music and languages & linguistics.