OpenFieldPortland State · Portland, Oregon, United States
Portland State University is Oregon's premier urban public research university, located across 50 tree-lined acres in downtown Portland's University District. Nationally acclaimed for urban and regional planning, sustainability, computer science, social work, and environmental science.
PSU hosts the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning (consistently ranked in the top 10 nationwide), the School of Business with the Karl Miller Center, and the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides. Its motto 'Let Knowledge Serve the City' anchors deep civic partnerships.
Undergraduate admission requires high school graduation with a minimum 2.5 GPA (test-optional). Graduate programs require an accredited bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA and discipline-specific materials (transcripts, letters, statement of purpose).
Ranked among the top urban planning programs in North America, focusing on transit-oriented development, climate action planning, affordable housing policy, and participatory GIS modeling.
Advanced doctoral research in cybersecurity, programming languages, computer vision, database systems, intelligent robotics, and hardware verification in Portland's Silicon Forest.
Hands-on study of Columbia River watershed ecology, forest wildfire regimes, urban stream restoration, invasive species ecology, and environmental toxicology.
ABET-accredited program covering seismic structural design, sustainable mass timber engineering, transportation traffic modeling, and geotechnical earthquake mitigation.
CSWE-accredited nationally top-ranked MSW educating clinical and macro social workers in trauma-informed practice, child welfare, addictions counseling, and healthcare social work.
Graduate research fellowship partnering with the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to evaluate urban heat island mitigation, tree canopy equity, and green infrastructure.
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning
Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning
Dr. Shandas is an internationally renowned climate adaptation scientist who founded the Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab (SUPR Lab), mapping urban heat isla...
View researcher profile ↗Professor & Chair of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Dr. Feng specializes in distributed computer systems, video streaming architectures, digital forensics, and network telemetry security....
View researcher profile ↗Associate Professor of Finance
School of Business
Dr. Gleason's research focuses on corporate governance, banking performance, commercial loan syndication, and financial risk mitigation in institutional portfol...
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