University of Oregon
Office of Admissions
1217 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
The University of Oregon is a world-class teaching and research university located in the beautiful Willamette Valley of Oregon. The University of Oregon is a major liberal arts and sciences university, offering a broad spectrum of learning opportunities in the liberal arts and professional programs in architecture, arts, business, education, journalism, law, and music and dance.

In the classrooms and laboratories, students are inspired by a faculty of prominent scholars and work side by side with eminent researchers involved in cutting-edge research and breakthrough discoveries. At the University of Oregon, both students and faculty members reach out to make connections that serve communities from small local groups to large international organizations.

The outdoor-focused location, classic college town, and arts-infused community have enriched the students at the University of Oregon, as well as the residents of Eugene. At the University of Oregon, people are part of an activist community, energized by students and faculty members who live the philosophy "Minds Move Mountains." They spread the message that education should inspire and prepare people to make a difference in the world.
  
 
Quick Facts:
  • Total student enrollment at the University of Oregon is a little over 20,000.
  • The University of Oregon has been consistently named by The Fiske Guide to Colleges as one of the best buys for students for the combination of academic excellence and relatively low cost.
  • Among all Oregon colleges, the only full-range professional school of music and dance is at the University of Oregon, offering major programs in performance, music education, theory, history, composition, jazz studies, music technology, conducting, piano pedagogy, and violin/viola pedagogy.
  • More than 2,000 graduates have joined the Peace Corps since it began in 1961 earning the University of Oregon the distinction as the nation's top Peace Corp school in terms of number of volunteers per capita.
  • The School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon offers the only accredited professional degree programs in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture among all Oregon colleges.
  • The University of Oregon Creative Writing Program is nationally recognized. Each year, more than 300 applicants vie for twelve spaces.
  • The Living-Learning Center is the newest residence hall to be built on the University of Oregon campus and it houses not only students, but is also home to a performance hall, classrooms, faculty advising offices, bistro, study alcoves, and meeting rooms. The center marks the beginning of a revitalization of the residential quadrant on the University of Oregon campus.
  • U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Oregon's Charles H. Lundquist College of Business graduate and undergraduate programs among the best at public universities and in the top 10 of all schools on the West Coast.
  • Sports Illustrated considers the University of Oregon's James H. Warsaw Sports Marketing Center to be the premier sports business program in the nation.
  • Among graduates and faculty members are two Nobel Prize recipients, ten Pulitzer Prize winners, five members of the National Academy of Sciences, nine members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, seven Oregon governors, and 19 Rhodes scholars.
  
 
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