Future Students

At Oregon State University, you will find an outstanding learning and living environment with a Graduate Faculty committed to helping you achieve your academic and career goals.

Members of OSU's Graduate Faculty will be responsible for directing your research, teaching your courses, serving on your graduate committee, and acting as advisors. The Graduate Faculty is selected from the university faculty on the basis of academic training, experience, demonstrated creativity and scholarship, and evidence of the ability and competence required in directing and supervising graduate students.

Graduate students and faculty take advantage of up-to-date laboratories, clean rooms, and other research facilities, a modern library containing more than two million volumes, and comprehensive special collections in a variety of disciplines.

• The university has received the Carnegie Foundation's highest designation-Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive University.
   
• We are a Land Grant, Sea Grant, and Space Grant university-one of only six in the nation to hold all three designations.
   
• Oregon State offers more than 80 different graduate programs including fields in engineering, forestry, agriculture, science, liberal arts, health-related studies, business, and education.
   
• Most OSU programs have flexible options that allow you to develop a program that will best prepare you for your future. If you select Oregon State University for your graduate work, you will join a diverse student body that includes more than 3,300 graduate students in 11 different colleges and schools. OSU students come from all 50 states and about 90 foreign countries. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and orientations.
   

For more information about your specific program, visit the program's website, write to your program of interest at: Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 97331, or call 541-737-1000 and ask to be transferred to the program office.

For an application packet, visit the Admissions website or write to Office of Admissions, 104 Kerr Administration Building, Corvallis, OR 97331-2106.