PSU's location in the heart of Oregon’s Silicon Forest gives you access to a vibrant tech community. You’ll have opportunities to do internships, build your network and explore career paths with established companies and startups. PSU’s University Career Center will also help connect you to Portland-area employers.

Build a Strong Mathematical Foundation for Data Science Success

Unlike data science programs that primarily focus on computer science, our program places a strong emphasis on mathematical rigor and integrates expertise from mathematics, statistics and computer science into your coursework. This helps you develop a deep understanding of every data science method you use. 

Explore Interdisciplinary Applications of Data Science

At PSU, you’ll explore data science within many fields, including environmental science, business analytics, health informatics, urban planning and social sciences. This approach will bring you real-world experience and train you for data science positions in a variety of fields.

Transferring to PSU? We’ve Got You Covered

Thinking about transferring? Our Data Science Transfer Advising Guides make it easy to see how your previous classes fit into PSU’s program. They’ll help you plan ahead, avoid surprises and stay on track to earn your degree.

You will graduate from one of the nation's "top 10 most innovative" universities with a degree that is interdisciplinary and tailored to your interests and career goals.

You can further enhance your learning by going on one of the 200 credit-bearing international opportunities offered by PSU Education Abroad.

Our diverse campus is located in the center of downtown Portland, one of the most vibrant cities on the West Coast.

This degree isn’t offered anywhere else, so it offers a unique opportunity to hone your skills in thinking and communicating about multiple facets of the arts. Portland State University’s location offers endless opportunities to experience Portland’s vibrant creative and cultural scene, we are located just steps from museums, art galleries, and performance spaces. Through our program you'll gain access to the Portland Art Museum’s College Creative License program, offering a reduced-price annual museum pass.

You'll learn from and work closely with our expert faculty, who are leading researchers on topics such as mathematical knowledge for teaching, student learning in the middle grades, elementary and middle school mathematics teacher education, teaching and learning of abstract algebra, statistics education research, and undergraduate calculus and differential equations education.

Our faculty are active, nationally and internationally, in the mathematics education community and regularly serve on editorial boards of top journals.

PSU's program prepares you to excel in both teaching and research by combining advanced training in mathematics and mathematics education with teaching experience at both the K-12 and college level and courses in the use of technology in math education, research methods and supporting areas such as curriculum and instruction, psychology, and educational policy.

Our location in Portland and our partnerships with Portland Public Schools and other area districts provide you with a natural laboratory to conduct research on the teaching and learning of math in an urban setting. Our community-based practicum gives you an opportunity to get hands-on experience with the qualitative and quantitative approaches that are now used by researchers and curriculum developers in a variety of settings, from elementary to college level.

Practicums range from case studies of students' learning documented over time to studies of teachers' practice in the math classroom. You'll also engage in individual research to complete a dissertation study, the most important part of your program. You'll identify and research a significant problem and make an original contribution to an area of research in mathematics education.

We also offer scholarships and teaching and research assistantships to ensure you have the support and experience you need to succeed.

Choose PSU’s Middle East Studies certificate if you’re looking for:

• Exceptional faculty.  Our faculty have extensive experience with teaching and research in the Middle East. 
• Exciting, cutting-edge courses. Our face-to-face and online courses allow students to focus on various areas from Iran, Turkey, and Israel to Arab nations, or explore themes such as Islamic movements and gender relations in the Middle East.
• An interdisciplinary education. We offer a flexible interdisciplinary curriculum that can be tailored to your goals and interests. Our faculty are scholars from diverse disciplines such as linguistics, history, political science, and economics.
• Personalized advising. Professional and faculty advisors are there to support your learning goals and guide you to new opportunities.
• Study abroad opportunities. You can enhance your knowledge of the region by going on one of the many credit-bearing international opportunities in Middle Eastern or North African countries offered through PSU’s Education Abroad.
• Scholarships and fellowships. Many scholarships are available to students, including Critical Language Scholarships as well as Boren and Fulbright opportunities. 

Our diverse campus is located in downtown Portland, one of the most vibrant cities on the West Coast.

Housed within a University dedicated to public service, our EMCR degree is the ideal blend of expertise and opportunity, with world-renowned faculty and a city that serves as a natural laboratory. Portland is home to active and progressive neighborhood teams and the power of nature in every direction, with volcanoes, flood zones, landslides, forests, earthquakes, fault lines, tsunamis and the coast all close by. Together, the city of Portland and Portland State University comprise the ideal location to study emergency management and community resilience.

Portland State's Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project has been engaging students, faculty and local communities in difficult conversations about the Holocaust, genocide, and crimes against humanity for over a decade. The H-GAP Graduate Certificate builds on that work, drawing from the strengths of our Conflict Resolution Department, and situating its exploration of resistance and transformation within the larger purview of the School of Gender, Race and Nations as we support students and the larger community to engage in social change processes that yield improved justice outcomes.

Building upon historic examples of the Holocaust and other atrocities that have shaped the language and scope of the field, the H-GAP Graduate Certificate invites students to explore emerging scholarship about how identity issues, climate change, political trends and migration patterns impact the risks of genocide and mass atrocities; and about how to maximize the role of civil society actors, local governments, and international bodies in effective prevention efforts. The certificate program combines historical background with theories and practices of conflict resolution that support constructive engagement, strategic communication and empowered collaboration — all essential tools for effective prevention.

The Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project operates under the premise that education in action is at the heart of stopping systematized hate, and ending the dehumanization that leads to genocide. In partnership with community partners, including the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, the Never Again Coalition, the Oregon Historical Society, World Oregon, Immigrant Story Project, and the Holocaust Education Foundation, among other local and national collaborators, you'll have opportunities to engage in conversations about the Holocaust and other genocides and a broad range of prevention efforts through world-renowned speakers, films and workshops.

Portland State's location in the heart of a dynamic geologic environment provides you with opportunities to learn from our expert faculty and benefit from the on-campus presence of the U.S. Geological Survey's Oregon Water Science Center.

In the core Environmental Geology course, you'll study flooding, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic and coastal hazards and related land use planning, waste disposal and pollution in the geological environment, water supply, mineral and energy resources, environmental law related to geology, medical geology and climatic change. Depending on your interests and needs, you can choose from a wide variety of electives in civil engineering, environmental science or geography.

Portland State's graduate certificate and master's degree in GIS trains you in skills that are widely sought after both locally and nationally.

Our focus on geospatial technologies prepares you to tackle problems through the collection and analysis of locational intelligence, from solving homelessness to developing smart cities.

In your classes, taught by faculty who are actively engaged in GIS research, you'll gain key GIS competencies, including:

• Geospatial software tools
• Map production and cartography
• 3D and terrain modeling and analysis
• Fundamental skills in information science, such as spatial database design and GIS programming
• Remote sensing systems and data
• Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)-based photogrammetry

You can target your coursework in one of five focus areas:

• remote sensing and digital image analysis
• cartography and geovisualization
• computer and information sciences
• spatial statistics and quantitative methods
• system and data science

Our Portland metro region is home to many major GIS companies, mid-size GIS consultant companies, and government agencies who are increasingly seeking to enhance their GIS capacities. You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with a community partner on an applied project, bringing together everything you've learned in the GIS master's program.

At PSU, you'll also have plenty of opportunities to build your professional network. Our GIS faculty members and student GIS Club regularly interact with the GIS communities through speaker series, internship opportunities, and professional conferences such as the GIS in Action and Portland Cartography Symposium.

Choose PSU’s African Studies certificate if you’re looking for:

• Exceptional faculty.  Our faculty have extensive experience with teaching and research in the African continent. 
• Exciting, cutting-edge courses. Our face-to-face and online courses cover topics such as African history and culture, African politics, and post-colonial studies.
• An interdisciplinary education. We offer a flexible interdisciplinary curriculum that can be tailored to your goals and interests. Our faculty are scholars from diverse disciplines such as geography, history, political science, and economics.
• Personalized advising. Professional and faculty advisors are there to support your learning goals and guide you to new opportunities.
• Study abroad opportunities. You can enhance your knowledge of the region by going on one of the many credit-bearing international opportunities in Middle Eastern or North African countries offered through PSU’s Education Abroad.
• Scholarships and fellowships. Many scholarships are available to students, including Critical Language Scholarships as well as Boren and Fulbright opportunities. 

Our diverse campus is located in the center of downtown Portland, one of the most vibrant cities on the West Coast.