Beaver Brag Points
Lots to Brag About!
We all love to share the Oregon State story. From spreading the word about OSU’s prominent presence in our community and our philanthropic passions to bragging about our amazing university and innovations, we present a batch of talking points for the not-so-bashful Beavers.
Whether you are talking with friends and family or sharing the OSU mission at a cocktail party, we’ve got you covered.
OSU students and campus life
- Over 37,000 students attend OSU from around the world
- OSU remains Oregon's largest university for the 13th straight year, with substantial growth in undergraduate students
- Almost a quarter of all students are among the first generation in their families to attend college
- OSU is ranked as the best school for veterans in Oregon
- Corvallis is the No. 2 college town in the country and No. 1 in Oregon
- OSU is home to more than 500 student clubs and seven cultural resource centers
- Over 5,000 OSU students benefit from donor-funded scholarships
- At about $72,000 per year, OSU alumni earn nearly 20% more than their college-educated peers
Academic and research excellence
Worldwide
- Ranked in the top 1.4% of universities globally
- No. 2 forestry program in the world
- No. 3 oceanography program in the world
Online
- No. 6 best online bachelor’s program in the U.S. — in the top 10 nationally for 12 consecutive years
- No. 1 online bachelor’s program in psychology
- No. 4 online bachelor’s program in business
- No. 5 online master’s program in public health
In the U.S.
- A Tier 1 Research University and recipient of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification for the third year in a row
- A top-25 start-up accelerator program, the only one in Oregon
- The Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex, which opens in 2027, will harness one of the nation's most powerful supercomputers and team-based research to solve global challenges
- No. 1 forestry program
- No. 4 agricultural college
- No. 6 plant sciences program
- No. 16 robotics engineering program
- No. 1 bachelor’s program in natural resource management
- No. 1 bachelor’s program in fisheries sciences
- No. 2 bachelor’s program in manufacturing engineering
- No. 4 bachelor’s program in construction engineering
In Oregon
- Oregon State receives more research funding than all of the state’s comprehensive public universities combined, with funding topping $400 million in each of the past two fiscal years
- OSU is leading a consortium of nearly 100 partners (Frontiers of Advanced Semiconductor Technology, or FAST) chosen to receive up to $160 million to grow the state’s semiconductor ecosystem
- No. 1 liberal arts and social sciences programs
- No. 1 best computer science program
- No. 5 best value college
Notable alumni