• Students can earn a PSU degree at six different locations in the metropolitan region and Willamette Valley. By 2012, the University expects to teach 5,000 undergraduate students on (or near) community college campuses.

• Curriculum articulation agreements with area community colleges allow students to easily transition from community college to PSU. Students may simultaneously attend PSU and area community colleges through streamlined co-enrollment program documentation.

• PSU offers more than 120 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as graduate certificates and continuing education programs.

• On average, more PSU graduates are accepted to medical and dental programs at OHSU than from any other university in the nation. [Learn more about the pre-med and pre-dental programs at Portland State.]
  

• PSU's Honors Program offers a demanding course of study that furnishes students with an extremely competitive portfolio for graduate admission--more than 75 percent of the program's graduates attend their first- or second-choice graduate school.

• In August 2006, Portland State was voted best university or college in a reader's poll by Willamette Week, stating, "With dozens of new star faculty members and a growing national reputation, it comes as no surprise that you're excited about Portland State University."

• Two PSU students, Eric Wynkoop and Alder Phillips, were awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarships to study abroad for the 2006-2007 school year. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential.

• Real estate students at Portland State proposed new energy efficient and affordable lofts in Seattle and won the third-annual National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Pacific Northwest Real Estate Challenge.

• For the second time in three years, advertising students from the School of Business Administration (SBA) at Portland State University won the Cadillac National Advertising Case Competition.

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