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unitid 209542 · Corvallis, OR · public 4-year · city (small)

Oregon State University

Public university in Corvallis, Oregon, US

founded
1856
enrollment 2023
41,142
predominant degree
Bachelor's
Campus of Oregon State University

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Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The university enrolls over 32,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs, and graduate and doctoral degrees through all of its 11 colleges. It has been classified by the Carnegie Foundation as an R1 Doctoral University, designating "very high research spending and doctorate production". As of 2025, OSU is home to the fifth-largest engineering college in the nation. wikipedia rev 1363712510 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

77%

38th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

30,743

95th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

23%

undergrads on Pell grants

24th pctl among public 4-years

completion

70%

finish within 150% time

89th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$31,653

91st pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$19,604

after aid, aided students

90th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$64,010

after entry, Title IV students

84th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$21,221

66th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $12,107 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    22%
  • 30-48k
    14%
  • 48-75k
    18%
  • 75-110k
    17%
  • 110k+
    28%
Median family income
$44,450
First-generation students
31%
In-state tuition & fees
$14,400

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.0× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Computer Science.877$109,905$26,000
Business Administration, Management and Operations.419$69,262$24,738
Psychology, General.328$49,486$25,340
Mechanical Engineering.263$94,649$24,666
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.215$60,964$24,201
Biology, General.193$54,017$22,846
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.163$49,012$26,000
Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy.155$45,158$34,429
Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.141$103,024$23,168
Business Administration, Management and Operations.119$93,312—
Public Health.112$60,183$24,000
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.109$105,331$24,167

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 2,807 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (868) · basketball player (571) · university teacher (166) · American football player (107) · politician (99) · baseball player (50) · mathematician (43) · association football player (35)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Linus Pauling Chemistry 1954
  • Linus Pauling Peace 1962

The portrait wall

Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).

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built 2026-07-17

Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363712510), CC BY-SA 4.0.