Made in Portland
Degree programs, certificates, and research centers on one campus. Small enough that you'll know everyone in your cohort and specific enough that every program here has a reason to be in Portland.
ONE OREGON
UO Portland is the University of Oregon: the state's flagship and an R1 research university, in the top one percent worldwide as a member of the Association of American Universities. Your degree says University of Oregon. Your faculty are UO faculty, from the same schools and colleges that teach in Eugene. Your library card reaches the collections of more than 30 other libraries. And the alumni network you join is every Duck, everywhere.
The people teaching you still do the work.
That's what being in Portland adds. The projects come from real companies, the placements are across the city, and the employers are a short drive away.
- Who's in the room. Architecture by practicing architects. Sports Product Management by a former Nike chief marketing officer and a former Nike Innovation Kitchen designer. Strategic Communication by a working chief communications officer.
- Projects that come from outside. Architecture students spent a term designing community libraries alongside Bora, the Portland firm behind several Multnomah County branches. Sports Product Design students took five of the twelve finalist places in an international wool design challenge with more than 700 entrants.
- Out in the field. Ballmer Institute and School Psychology students are placed in schools across Portland. Oregon Executive MBA students travel abroad as part of the program.
- And people stay. Graduates are at Bora, the Portland Timbers, and Timberlab, and one manages social media for a team she used to watch from the stands.
Your apartment is on the same block as your classroom.
You can walk across campus in a few minutes. It sits in a residential neighborhood in Northeast Portland, with coffee, restaurants, and a grocery store a little farther out.
- A gym, turf field, and library
- Student-only spaces like the Duck Den and Duck Nest
- A 20-minute drive from downtown or the airport
The clinic that cared for her as a child just hired her.
Anne Libby transferred from Portland Community College and graduated in the first class of the Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health. She interned for eight months at a Portland-area pediatric clinic, the same one that cared for her as a child, and now works there as a behavioral health provider.
"Before I started this degree, I didn't even know that it was possible to work in a healthcare setting, helping support children's behavioral health with just a bachelor's degree."
Career-focused degrees, mostly at the graduate level.
- Oregon Executive MBA
- Multimedia Storytelling
- Strategic Communication
- Immersive Media Communication
- Sports Product Design
- Sports Product Management
- Architecture (MArch II and MS)
- School Psychology (Ed.S.)
- Architecture, MArch I and BArch transfers from Eugene
- Product Design, fourth year
- Child Behavioral Health, years three and four
- Oregon Law Anywhere, final year of the JD
She got the job six months after starting her master's
Vanesa Montalvo spent seven years working, at a Portland agency and then at Nike, before going back to school. She joined the Strategic Communication master's in September 2024 and the Portland Timbers six months later. She leads strategy on a four-person team.
"Making friends as an adult can be hard. But in our small cohort of 10 to 12 students, spending so much time together and sharing the same goals naturally built a connection."
Only a handful of Coquille stories survived. Students helped preserve one.
In the Oregon Reality Lab, a student team worked with Jason Younker, past chief of the Coquille Indian Tribe, to turn the tribe's Sasquatch story into an augmented reality experience you walk through wearing AR glasses. It won first place in Snap's Spectacles Community Challenge and was an Auggie Award finalist for societal impact. You can try it at the lab.
The research centers here work on children's behavioral health, building science, cities and transportation, journalism, immersive media, and labor. Mostly faculty-led, with some student involvement.
- Agora Journalism Center
- Catalyst Center for Youth Behavioral Health
- Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory
- Institute for Health in the Built Environment
- Labor Education and Research Center
- Oregon Reality Lab
- Prevention Science Institute
- Urbanism Next
Ten weeks, an internship, and somewhere to live.
Undergraduates based in Eugene spend ten weeks here over the summer, interning with nonprofits and small businesses across Portland, with the option to live on campus. The connection to the city isn't only for people enrolled here.
UO Portland. Graduate programs, research centers, and a campus in Northeast Portland.