University of Portland

As of the 2013-2014 academic year, some 3,900 University of Portland students and approximately 320 faculty members are engaged in teaching and research on the campus founded in 1901 and once on the edge of the American wilderness. The University has been ranked 19 years consecutively in the top ten for western regional universities by U.S. News & World Report, and in Barron’s Best Buys as one of the best teaching universities in the West. It also has been ranked byBloomberg BusinessWeek as the best return on investment for any university in Oregon and for five consecutive years has been on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.