Colleges in Oregon
Solyo has full profiles for 6 colleges in Oregon: 2 public, 4 private nonprofit. The median family here pays $28,210 a year after grant aid, $6,645 above the national median. Half of these schools admit more than 78% of applicants. They sit across 4 cities, concentrated in Portland, Corvallis, Eugene.
What Oregon costs
Published in-state tuition at the median Oregon public university is $16,137 a year before aid. Residency is worth the most at University of Oregon, where an out-of-state family pays $28,461 more for the same degree.
After grants and scholarships the range runs from $19,604 at Oregon State University to $36,013 at Lewis & Clark College. That spread is the reason a sticker price is a poor way to build a list in Oregon.
Why net price beats sticker price, and what an average one does and does not tell a particular family.
How selective Oregon schools are
Reed College admits 25% of applicants and University of Portland admits 89%. A list drawn only from the selective end of that range has no likely school in it, which is the most common mistake in a first draft.
The highest average SAT reported in Oregon is 1437 at Reed College.
Every Oregon college profile
Ordered by selectivity, most selective first.
- Reed CollegePortland, Oregon · Private nonprofit25% acceptance · $33,013 net price · 1437 avg SAT
- Willamette UniversitySalem, Oregon · Private nonprofit77% acceptance · $25,121 net price · 1377 avg SAT
- Oregon State UniversityCorvallis, Oregon · Public77% acceptance · $19,604 net price · 1290 avg SAT
- Lewis & Clark CollegePortland, Oregon · Private nonprofit78% acceptance · $36,013 net price
- University of OregonEugene, Oregon · Public88% acceptance · $22,182 net price · 1272 avg SAT
- University of PortlandPortland, Oregon · Private nonprofit89% acceptance · $28,210 net price · 1277 avg SAT
Other West states
On median net price Oregon is the 11th most affordable of the 13 West states in this directory, and the 8th most accessible on median acceptance rate. In-state pricing makes the neighbouring states worth checking too.
- California (50)
- Colorado (7)
- Washington (7)
- New Mexico (3)
- Arizona (2)
- Idaho (2)
- Montana (2)
- Nevada (2)
- Utah (2)
- Hawaii (2)
- Wyoming (1)
- Alaska (1)
Where to go next
- College search filter Oregon and every other state by major, cost and selectivity
- How to read these numbers what each figure on a profile measures
- Scholarship directory awards with published odds, filterable by state
- All 50 states and Washington D.C.