Portland State University

No university education is complete without campus activities, events and programs that develop your social, intellectual and creative life. Portland State provides purposeful and collaborative programs that engage and enhance its students.

Make new friends. Challenge your beliefs. Plan a World Dance series. Run one of Portland State's student art galleries. Lead an outdoor program on one of Oregon's rivers or mountains. Participate in collegiate varsity sports or intramurals. Debate. Orate. Speak out on KPSU Radio. Read poetry. Join the students' Aerospace Society. Play in the student band. Seeking diversity? Join a language, cultural or ethnic club, or start a student organization of your own.

Portland State University has more than 100 active student programs and organizations designed to enrich your academic education.

Take the initiative. Become involved. The opportunities will amaze you.

Campus Tours

Visit our campus and see Oregon's only urban university for yourself. Here are resources for getting to and around campus.

Living in Portland

Portland State is in the heart of the cosmopolitan city that shares its name, surrounded by the wild places, rivers and ocean that make the Pacific Northwest a magnet for people who want to have it all.

Arts & Entertainment

Looking for performances, lectures, showings, and games?

Department of Theater Arts
Department of Art
Department of Architecture
Department of Music
School of Fine and Performing Arts
Fifth Avenue Cinema
goviks.com
Public events at Portland State for all of the above and more

Food, Fun & Shopping

News & Information

Student Centers

Find your friends and everything you need in the Smith Memorial Student Union. Get active in recreation and athletics at the Stott Center. Everyone fits in at Portland State's Multicultural Center. Get in touch with Northwest Native American culture at the new Native American Student & Community Center. Make connections through the Women's Resource Center.

Student Groups & Government

Get involved in the Fine & Performing Arts, Advocacy/Service, Academic/Honorary, Multicultural, Political, Recreational, Greek Life, or Spiritual student organizations at Portland State. Take charge of your education: participate in Portland State student governance.

Campus Life