This is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Oregon. Seven public universities, overseen by the Oregon Office of University Coordination, are operated by boards appointed by the governor, [1] and seventeen community colleges are operated by locally elected boards. [2] There are also numerous private degree-granting institutions.
The largest university in the state is Oregon State University (OSU), with an enrollment of just over 36,0000 (2023). [3] OSU has branch campuses in Portland, Bend and Newport. The largest higher education institution in the state is Portland Community College in Southwest Portland. The college serves the state's largest metropolitan population and claims an enrollment of over 67,000 students.
The oldest college in the state is Willamette University, which was established 1842, and is also the oldest university in the Western United States. OSU is the oldest public university in the state, which was established in 1868. Central Oregon Community College (COCC) was founded in 1949 as part of the Bend School District and is the longest-standing community college in the state. The COCC College District was formed in 1959 and was officially established as the Central Oregon Area Education District by a vote of residents in 1962.
This list includes all schools that grant degrees at an associate level or higher, and are either accredited or in the process of accreditation by a recognized accrediting agency.
School | Main location | Control | Type [4] | Enrollment | Founded |
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American College of Healthcare Sciences | Portland | Private (for-profit) | Health professional school | 741 | 1978 [5] |
Portland Bible College | Portland | Private | Religious School | 415 | 1967 |
Bushnell University | Eugene | Private (Disciples of Christ) | Liberal arts college | 805 | 1895 [6] |
Blue Mountain Community College | Pendleton | Public | Associates college | 1,330 | 1962 [7] |
Central Oregon Community College | Bend | Public | Associates college | 4,564 | 1949 [8] |
Chemeketa Community College | Salem | Public | Associates college | 10,571 | 1970 [7] |
Clackamas Community College | Oregon City | Public | Associates college | 7,302 | 1961 [7] |
Clatsop Community College | Astoria | Public | Associates college | 815 | 1958 [7] |
Columbia Gorge Community College | The Dalles | Public | Associates college | 902 | 1989 [7] |
Corban University | Salem | Private (Baptist) | Liberal arts college | 2,844 | 1935 |
Eastern Oregon University | La Grande | Public | Liberal arts university ------ Agriculture management (State-designate) | 3,067 | 1929 |
George Fox University | Newberg | Private (Quaker) | Research college ------ Liberal arts | 4,108 | 1891 |
Gutenberg College | Eugene | Private (Protestant) | Religious school [9] | 14 | 1994 [10] |
Klamath Community College | Klamath Falls | Public | Associates college | 2000 | 1996 [7] |
Lane Community College | Eugene | Public | Associates college | 10,520 | 1964 [7] |
Lewis & Clark College | Portland | Private | Liberal arts college ------ Law College | 3,396 | 1867 |
Linfield University | McMinnville | Private (Baptist) | Liberal arts college ------ Nursing | 1,931 | 1858 |
Linn–Benton Community College | Albany | Public | Associates college | 10,347 | 1967 [7] |
Mount Angel Seminary | St. Benedict | Private (Catholic) | Religious school | 165 | 1887 [11] |
Mt. Hood Community College | Gresham | Public | Associates college | 28,000 | 1965 [7] |
Multnomah University | Portland | Private (Protestant) | Religious school | 695 | 1936 [12] |
National University of Natural Medicine | Portland | Private | Health professional school | 475 | 1956 [13] |
New Hope Christian College | Eugene | Private (Pentecostal) | Religious school | 92 | 1925 |
Oregon Coast Community College | Newport | Public | Associates college | 409 | 1987 [7] |
Oregon College of Oriental Medicine | Portland | Private | Health professional school | 245 | 1983 [14] |
Oregon Health & Science University | Portland | Public | Medical university ------ Medical research (State-designate) | 2,999 | 1974 [15] |
Oregon Institute of Technology | Klamath Falls | Public | Trade school ------ Science & technology (State-designate) | 5,178 | 1947 |
Oregon State University | Public | Research university ------ Science & technology (State-designate) | +36,000 [16] | 1868 | |
Pacific Northwest College of Art | Portland | Private | School of art | 430 | 1909 |
Pacific University | Forest Grove | Private | Research college ------ Liberal arts | 3,937 | 1849 |
Portland Community College | Portland | Public | Associates college | 67,585 | 1961 [7] |
Portland State University [17] | Portland | Public | Research university ------ Liberal arts (Metro-designate) | 26,012 | 1946 |
Reed College | Portland | Private | Research college ------ Liberal arts | 1,385 | 1911 |
Rogue Community College | Grants Pass, Medford | Public | Associates college | 5,099 | 1970 [7] |
Southern Oregon University | Ashland | Public | Liberal arts university | 5,800 | 1926 |
Southwestern Oregon Community College | Coos Bay | Public | Associates college | 2,316 | 1961 [18] |
Sumner College | Portland | Private (for-profit) | Associates college | 321 | 1974 [19] |
Tillamook Bay Community College | Tillamook | Public | Associates college | 473 | 1981 [7] |
Treasure Valley Community College | Ontario | Public | Associates college | 2,396 | 1962 [7] |
Umpqua Community College | Roseburg | Public | Associates college | 2,255 | 1964 [20] |
University of Oregon | Eugene | Public | Research university ------ Liberal arts (State-designate) | 22,760 | 1876 |
University of Portland | Portland | Private (Catholic) | Liberal arts college ------ Nursing college | 4,250 | 1901 |
University of Western States | Portland | Private | Health professional school | 531 | 1904 [21] |
Warner Pacific University | Portland | Private (Church of God) | Liberal arts college | 1536 | 1937 [22] |
Western Oregon University | Monmouth | Public | Liberal arts university ------ K-12 Teaching (State-designate) | 6,214 | 1856 |
Western Seminary | Portland | Private (Christian) | Special Focus Four-Year: Faith-Related Institution | 886 | 1927 [23] |
Willamette University | Salem | Private | Liberal arts college ------ Law college | 2,179 | 1842 |
Several schools based in other states offer degree programs at locations in Oregon:
School | Location(s) | Founded | Closed | Notes/Refs [28] | |
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Albany College | Albany | 1867 | 1942 | Became Lewis & Clark College [29] | |
Art Institute of Portland | Portland | 1963 [30] | 2018 | Dream Center permanently closed 18 Art Institute schools at end of 2018. | |
Ashland College & Normal School | Ashland | 1869 | Underwent name changes to Southern Oregon College (SOC) to Southern Oregon State College (SOSC) and finally to Southern Oregon University (SOU) in 1997. [31] [32] | ||
Baker Business College | Baker | 1891 | 1976 | Was in operation from 1891–1976. [33] No transcripts are available. [34] | |
Baker City Normal & Business College | Baker | 1887 | 1905 | ||
Baker College | Baker | 1969 | 1970 | Formerly Magic Valley Christian College, which moved to Baker from Albion, Idaho in 1969. [35] Today, the records for Baker College and Magic Valley Christian College are held at Oklahoma Christian University. [36] | |
Bassist College | Portland | 1998 | Called now the Art Institute of Portland, who has the Bassist College transcripts. [37] | ||
Bethel College | Bethel | 1855 | 1862 | Merged with Western Oregon University to form, in turn, Christian College in 1865, Oregon State Normal School in 1882, Oregon Normal School in 1911, and Oregon College of Education in 1939, which is Western Oregon University today. [38] | |
Blue Mountain University | La Grande | 1873 | 1885 | [39] | |
Cascade Christian College | Portland | 1918 | 1969 | Records are at Seattle Pacific University. [40] | |
Cascade College | Portland | 1956 | 2009 | School was operated by Oklahoma Christian University as a branch campus from 1994 to 2009. The school was formerly Columbia Christian College from 1956 to 1993. [41] Today, the records for both Columbia Christian College and Cascade College are at Oklahoma Christian University. [36] | |
Colegio Cesar Chavez | Mount Angel | 1973 | 1983 | First Chicano college in U.S. An archive on this college is available through the Oregon State University archives. [42] | |
College of Philomath | Philomath | 1889 | 1912 | Early Oregon public prepatory [43] | |
Columbia Christian College | Portland | 1947 | 1993 | The records for both Columbia Christian College and Cascade College (the one that closed in 2009) are at Oklahoma Christian University. [36] | |
Columbia College | Eugene | 1855 | 1860 | [44] | |
Columbia College of Business | Clackamas | 1999 | According to the Oregon Department of Education's list, the records are available at Pioneer Pacific College in Wilsonville. [45] | ||
Concordia University | Portland | 1905 | 2020 | [46] | |
Coquille College | 1890 | 1905 | |||
Corvallis College | Corvallis | 1859 | 1885 | Forerunner of Oregon State University. [47] | |
Dallas College | Dallas | 1900 | 1914 | ||
DeVry University | Beaverton | 2015 | [48] [49] | ||
Eastern Oregon College | La Grande | 1892 | 1898 | Forerunner of Eastern Oregon University. [50] [51] | |
Jefferson Institute | Jefferson | 1857 | 1899 | ||
Jefferson Institute | Rickreall | 1846 | |||
Judson Baptist College | The Dalles | 1956 | 1985 | Records at Arizona Christian University. [52] | |
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Portland | Portland | 1983 [53] | 2017 | All national Le Cordon Bleu locations closed in 2017. | |
Liberal University | Silverton | 1896 | 1903 | ||
Marylhurst University | Marylhurst | 1893 | 2018 | ||
Mineral Springs College | Sodaville | 1892 | 1908 | ||
Mount Angel College | St. Benedict | 1887 | 1973 | Although the college closed, the seminary, Mount Angel Seminary, is in operation. [54] | |
Multnomah College | Portland | 1897 | 1969 | Records at the University of Portland. [55] | |
National American University | Tigard | 2016 | |||
North Pacific College | Portland | 1899 | 1945 | Dental school absorbed into Oregon Health & Science University [56] and optometry school absorbed into Pacific University. [57] | |
Oregon City College | Oregon City | 1849 | 1858 | Assets donated to McMinnville College. [58] | |
Oregon College of Art | Ashland | 1984 | The records went to Pacific College of Art & Design, [45] and since then, Pacific College of Art & Design has likely closed (it lost its tax-exempt status). [59] [60] | ||
Oregon College of Art and Craft | Portland | 1907 [61] | 2019 | Unsuccessfully tried to merge with other local universities before closing in Spring 2019. | |
Oregon Denturist College | Milwaukie | 1993 | |||
Oregon Graduate Institute | Beaverton | 1963 | 2001 | Originally the Oregon Graduate Center until 1989. Merged with Oregon Health & Science University in 2001. | |
Oregon Law School | Salem and Portland | 1902 | 1922 | Not to be confused with the University of Oregon School of Law. [62] [63] | |
Oregon School of Design | Portland | 1992 | |||
Pacific College of Art & Design | Medford | Lost its tax-exempt status. [59] [60] | |||
Pioneer Pacific College | Beaverton | ||||
Philomath College | Philomath | ||||
Portland University | Portland | 1891 | 1900 | Was a Methodist school with ties to Willamette University. Campus and buildings sold to the Catholic Church and became the campus for the University of Portland. | |
Saint Francis College | 1885 | 1905 | |||
Saint Joseph College | 1844 | 1849 | |||
Saint Michael's College | Portland | 1871 | 1928 | ||
Sublimity College | Sublimity | 1857 | 1860 | ||
Whitney Business College | Baker | 1887 | 1891 | [64] |
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