Oregon Health & Science University

Public · OR

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School data & stats

TypePublic

LocationOR · West

SettingUrban

Undergrads836

Student:faculty5:1

Outcomes

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Cost

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Community

Racial diversity37.6%

Gender diversity81.6%

International0.8%

Identity—

Overview

Oregon Health & Science University is Portland's academic health center, its hillside campus on Marquam Hill connected to the city's South Waterfront by an aerial tram. It functions overwhelmingly as a graduate and professional institution, with medicine, dentistry, and biomedical research as its core identity.

Academics

Undergraduate-level study at OHSU is limited almost entirely to nursing and health-related completion degree programs, often serving students finishing degrees begun elsewhere across Oregon's regional partner campuses, rather than a full four-year undergraduate experience on the Portland hill. Research strength in medicine and the biosciences is substantial and shapes the environment even for the smaller undergraduate-facing programs.

Worth knowing

Prospective students should understand that OHSU is not a typical four-year college — it is best understood as Oregon's flagship academic medical center, and the small undergraduate nursing and health-completion pathways it offers exist within that much larger graduate and clinical institution.

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Admissions

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Enrolled mid-50%—

Test policynot reported

Rec letters0

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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