以创纪录的34,今年秋天有108名学生入学, 受有色人种学生人数增长的推动, 对面对面和在线课程的强劲需求, and surging interest from out-of-state learners and transfer students, 澳门威尼斯人娱乐场 continues to draw more students than any other university in Oregon.
Oregon State delivers a welcoming, supportive, confidence-building student experience. Strong undergraduate and graduate degree programs (more than 200 total), 世界知名的教师, and valuable hands-on learning through research and internships increasingly make OSU the destination of choice for a wide variety of students from all 50 states and 106 countries.
入学人数增长 在大学的另一边——科瓦利斯, Bend and online — counters national trends where many colleges and universities are experiencing a second year of declines.
Meet a few of the students who joined Beaver Nation this fall:
In Corvallis, a campus that feels like home and a place to grow and thrive
Enrollment in Corvallis includes 3,974 first-year students, an increase of 13.比去年秋天低5%. Alejandro Paniagua chose Oregon State because he says the campus felt most like home to him. 塞勒姆公共卫生专业的学生, Paniagua says attending class in-person makes him more motivated and engaged.
“I stepped out of my comfort zone a lot as a first-year student and a first-generation college student,他说. “Coming to Oregon State has been a transition, but it has made me grow so much. I feel so much more confident in social environments, and it is because of how open people are to just meet one another.”
Stella Doehring, a first-year engineering major and Honors College student from Bozeman, 蒙大拿, says she picked OSU on the strength of its engineering program and because she felt she could grow, 在这里茁壮成长并取得成功.
“In-person classroom time has been a crucial part of my first year of college,她说。. “面对面, 尤其是第一年, is extremely valuable for forming new relationships, and I find being in an interactive environment adds interest to the overall learning experience.”
来到澳门威尼斯人娱乐场瀑布分校向专家学习
At OSU-Cascades, enrollment grew to 1,247 students, a 2% increase over last year. 海莉Halvorsen, 谁用they/them代词, 从阿罗约格兰德来到本德校区, 加州, after earning an associate degree in hospitality management. 他们最初的计划是成为一名糕点师, 但在毕业后的几年里, 他们意识到烘焙是一种爱好, 他们的专业兴趣在别处.
哈尔沃森就读于艺术系, media and technology degree program at OSU-Cascades, taking upper-level courses that add faculty expertise to their self-taught experience.
“到目前为止, I taught myself about design and how to use complicated creative software,霍尔沃森说. “YouTube是我的导师. It’s great to learn about art history and creative software from faculty who really know it.”
校园提供了在线人际关系
Enrollment at Oregon State Ecampus increased 14% this fall, including computer science major Matthew Proper of Greensboro, 北卡罗莱纳. 部分瘫痪, Proper chose an online program because he is unable to independently navigate a college campus.
Oregon State and Ecampus appealed to Proper for several reasons: its consistent top-10 ranking from U.S. 新闻 & 世界报道, competitive tuition and a degree he wanted from a well-known university that he felt he could trust.
Proper earned an associate degree online in 北卡罗莱纳, but he says the experience with Ecampus is very different. He found a high level of interaction during a group project in an engineering class and has had regular meetings with an Ecampus student success coach.
“There is definitely more of a human connection, and I really like that,” Proper says. “这里有很多支持.”
转学生的机会很多
Oregon State is the destination of choice for transfers from community colleges and other schools, 1,今年秋天有169个转学生, a 1.比去年增长了3%. Michelle Wambui报道, completing her first two years at a community college before transferring to Oregon State had always been the plan, ever since her uncle strongly recommended the university. She came to OSU from Portland Community College as a junior this fall.
“I’ve always known that OSU is really good in science majors and research opportunities, 对我来说, 这就是我来这里的原因,她说。. “我是医学预科生, but I’m still also interested in a lot of research, 跟微生物学或遗传学有关. 我在这里遇到了一位导师.”
“Coming to Oregon State has been a transition, but it has made me grow so much."
——亚历杭德罗·帕尼亚瓜
研究生承担全球挑战
澳门威尼斯人娱乐场招收5人,629名研究生, 其中64%来自州外, 包括国际学生. One of these is Fulbright scholar Rossana Macedo, who moved to Corvallis from Paraguay to begin a master’s degree in environmental science in the College of Forestry. Her graduate program involves tracking forest changes via remote sensing and estimating their effects on biodiversity.
Macedo says she found an “amazing match” in major professor Matt Betts and loves “the true experience of an American campus” that she’s getting at Oregon State.
“It’s a welcoming environment in a community with a lot of people who speak my native language and share some of my experiences,马塞多说.
