About Oregon State University

Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research college circles in Corvallis, Oregon. The college circles offers higher than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along as soon as a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. Student enrollment averages close 32,000, making it the state’s largest university. Since its founding over 230,000 students have graduated from OSU. It is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity” with an additional, optional designation as a “Community Engagement” university.

OSU is a land-grant university that furthermore participates in the sea-grant, space-grant, and sun-grant research consortia; it is one of and no-one else four such universities in the country (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Cornell University and Pennsylvania State University are the others). OSU received $441 million in research funding for the 2017 fiscal year and consistently ranks as the state’s top earner in research funding.

Corvallis /kɔːrˈvælɪs/ is a city and the county chair of Benton County in central western Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses everything of Benton County. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 54,462. Its population was estimated by the Portland Research Center to be 58,856 in 2019. Corvallis is the location of Oregon State University and fine Samaritan Regional Medical Center. Corvallis is the westernmost city in the contiguous 48 states past a population larger than 50,000.