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Product design students sit around a table making notes on bright colored paper.

 

A small campus, with the whole university behind it.

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, a member of the Association of American Universities, and a Big Ten school. Your degree says University of Oregon. Your faculty are UO faculty, in 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.

Oregon Executive MBA students work together in the Alumni Atrium of the Library & Learning Center.
Why Portland

The people teaching you still do the work. 

What being in Portland adds is the people: faculty who still practice, projects that come from real companies, and employers a short drive away.

  • Taught by people who still do the work. 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. OEMBA students participate in international travel to gain global business insight. 
  • 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.
University apartments on NE 27th Avenue, across from campus.
Campus

Your apartment is on the same block as your classroom.

In only a few minutes, you can walk across the campus tucked in a residential Northeast Portland neighborhood. Coffee, restaurants, and a grocery store are a little longer walk away.

  • 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.

Explore the campus

The Thinker Duck statue in front of the Innovation Building
Students talking in front of the Campus Center building
Bright fall leaves in front of the Library & Learning Center
People sit at the outdoor amphitheater during an event on the campus green. The bell tower is in the background.
Anne Libby, right, works at a clinic as a student with the Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health
Students

She spent two years in Portland clinics. Now she works in one.

Anne Libby transferred from Portland Community College and graduated in the first class of the Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health. Her placements took her through schools and clinics across the city. She now works at the same Portland-area clinic that cared for her as a child.

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Programs

Every program here is professional, and most are graduate.

Fits around a job
 
Evenings, weekends, or fully online, designed for people already working.
  • Oregon Executive MBA
  • Multimedia Storytelling
  • Strategic Communication
  • Immersive Media Communication
Full-time and immersive 
 
Studios, labs, and a cohort you'll see every day. Taught in part by people still doing the work: Sports Product Management by two former Nike executives, Architecture by practising architects.
  • Sports Product Design
  • Sports Product Management
  • Product Design
  • Architecture (MArch II and MS)
  • School Psychology (Ed.S.)
Finish a degree you started 
 
Final years of an undergraduate degree, completed in Portland.
  • 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

Plus certificates and microcredentials in Technical Teaching in Architecture, Video Production, Community Podcasting, and Child Behavioral Health.

All programs