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History of Oregon State University. Benton Hall circa 1889. Oregon State University was founded as a small secondary and college preparatory school in the center of Oregon's Willamette Valley in 1856. The early school later served briefly as the first public college in the American Northwest - known then as the Oregon Territory.
Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university based in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees through all 11 colleges. It has the seventh-largest engineering college in the nation for 2023. [11]
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. [40] Blue Mountain University.
The OSU-Cascades campus in Bend, OR. In August 2012, the Oregon State Board of Higher Education approved OSU's plan to expand the campus into a four-year school. [3] Oregon State University planned to add freshman and sophomore level classes to the Cascades campus as early as 2015, though it was not decided if the current location would be used or if a new campus would be built. [3]
The Oregon University System (OUS) was administered by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education (the "Board") and the Chancellor of the OUS, who was appointed by the Board. [1] It was disbanded in June 2015. [2] OUS was responsible for governing the state's seven public universities.
Oregon football vs. Oregon State still feels like a rivalry When the teams played last season — a 31-7 Oregon win in Autzen Stadium on Nov. 24 — the future of the rivalry was murky.
The OSC Foundation officially became the Oregon State University Foundation on November 14, 1962. The university's endowment began with $20,000 in 1961. It took 16 years to reach its first $1 million in total receipts, and four more years to double that amount. Today the university's composite endowment totals more than $819 million, [4] with ...
The Oregon–Oregon State rivalry (formerly known as the Civil War[1]) is a college rivalry between the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. The rivalry is one of the oldest in the nation, dating back to 1894 when the two universities' football teams first met. Although the college football game is the most popular rivalry, the two ...