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Overview
Oregon State University-Cascades is Oregon State's branch campus in Bend, on the high-desert eastern side of the Cascade Range, offering full Oregon State degrees in a much smaller campus format than the Corvallis flagship. It was built specifically to serve central Oregon's fast-growing population and its outdoor-recreation-and-technology economy.
Academics
Programs are chosen to match the regional economy: outdoor products design and development is a distinctive offering tied to the area's outdoor-gear industry, alongside tourism and hospitality management, computer science, and energy systems engineering. Students earn the same Oregon State degree as Corvallis students, but in much smaller classes with more direct faculty access.
Campus & student life
Bend's setting is the campus's biggest draw. Skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and a genuine outdoor-industry culture surround the school, and many students choose OSU-Cascades specifically for that lifestyle rather than a large-university social scene; the campus itself is compact and still growing, without the traditions or scale of a full flagship.
Getting in
Admission generally follows Oregon State's standards, with OSU-Cascades functioning as a smaller, specialized entry point onto the Oregon State degree pathway rather than a separately branded selective process.
Worth knowing
Students who want an Oregon State degree with a small-campus, outdoor-economy feel rather than the large Corvallis campus are the clearest fit, particularly those interested in the outdoor products or energy systems programs that don't exist in the same form elsewhere.
Admissions
Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)
Applying
osucascades.edu ↗High school coursework
Required4 years of Language Arts · 3 years of Mathematics · 3 years of Social Studies · 3 years of Science (including at least one year each of two different sciences) · 2 years of a Secondary/Foreign Language
Recommended4 years of Mathematics (encouraged)
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