About Linfield College

Linfield University is a private the academy in McMinnville, Oregon. It plus has a campus in Portland and an adult degree program located online and in eight communities throughout the state. Linfield Wildcats athletics participates in the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference. There are a cumulative 2,282 students at Linfield, which employs beyond 150 full-time professors. The literary officially untouched its name from Linfield College to Linfield University, effective July 1, 2020.

McMinnville is the county chair of and largest city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. According to Oregon Geographic Names, it was named by its founder, William T. Newby (1820–1884), an prematurely immigrant on the Oregon Trail, for his hometown of McMinnville, Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 32,187.

McMinnville is at the confluence of the North and South Forks of the Yamhill River in the Willamette Valley. The city is home to Cascade Steel (a Schnitzer Steel Industries company), Oregon Mutual Insurance Company, Linfield University, Organic Valley creamery, Joe Dancer Park, and Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, the home of Howard Hughes’ famed Spruce Goose in the air boat.