Oregon State University Reviews

  • 98 Reviews
  • Corvallis (OR)
  • Annual Tuition: $33,439
83% of 98 students said this degree improved their career prospects
83% of 98 students said they would recommend this school to others
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Student & Graduate Reviews

Briana Boggs
  • Reviewed: 3/6/2013
  • Degree: Counseling
"I LOVE this program. The professors are all very supportive and knowledgeable. If you like the outdoors, Bend is a great place to go to grad school. If you are in need of public transportation, Bend isn't the best for that."
Satta Jivagunchainan
  • Reviewed: 2/19/2013
  • Degree: Liberal Studies
"I'm attending college of pharmacy. Its one of the two Pharmacy school in Oregon. I think OSU offere a really good program. There aren't that many scholarships"
eunice naswali
  • Reviewed: 2/19/2013
  • Degree: Electrical Engineering
"I enrolled in two graduate programs; I will review for the first graduate program where i had the most challenges Pros -competitive and renown professors -diverse graduate student body -great benefits for students i.e. tuition remission, health insurance -great facilities for students Cons -academic path and assistant ships for some students is not well defined from the beginning -limited variety of graduate courses -poor advertisement of career center resources to students"
Stacey Marple
  • Reviewed: 2/18/2013
  • Degree: Education
"Pros: Support of director and accessibility of faculty and e-campus resources including library. Cons: Classes seem somewhat disorganized and unclear of focus."
Melissa Scaffin
  • Reviewed: 2/11/2013
  • Degree: Public Health
"Pros: friendly, accessible faculty Cons: expensive, difficult parking"
Samaneh zhian
  • Reviewed: 2/2/2013
  • Degree: Health Sciences
"This is an amazing school in a college town. Very knowledgeable staff. And fun campus"
Amanda La Mar
  • Reviewed: 1/10/2013
  • Degree: Education
"The education focused program verses the profession focused program is a huge pro for me."
Heather Hill
  • Reviewed: 1/9/2013
  • Degree: Liberal Studies
"I find the culture of Corvallis is very reserved and closed, thus for someone that has always made friends easily this has been difficult for me to live here. Since this is a small town with reduced housing opportunities the rents have increased drastically. Where a 1bdrm when I first moved here about 19 months ago was around $400 and now you would be lucky to get one under $700 a month. It is not like our income is increased. Corvallis is marginalizing people that are not well off and making them move out due to increased costs in food and rent."
Susan Bogen
  • Reviewed: 1/4/2013
  • Degree: Education
"I have thoroughly enjoyed my program. It has been interesting, relevant, and challenging. However, being a full-time k-12 teacher has made it extremely difficult to complete in a timely manner and the continuing enrollment requirement has been a financial drain. I also feel there should have been better advisor support throughout. I believe a doctoral program should have more--not less--safeguards to ensure program completion. Unfortunately, I believe these are all issues that have contributed to the high number of students who end up ABD (all but dissertation)."
Tyler Johnson
  • Reviewed: 12/24/2012
  • Degree: Health Sciences
"It is a great program that just expanded from a department of public health to a school of public health. The faculty support is amazing."
Ada Massa
  • Reviewed: 12/4/2012
  • Degree: Health Sciences
"It is a unique program with excellent professors. It gets expensive when you are paying for quarter tuition."
Erin Wilson
  • Reviewed: 11/26/2012
  • Degree: Liberal Studies
"Oregon State University is quite proficient in its scientific research and academic community. The faculty is from all over the world, and offers many different facets of science. I am a graduate student of the Marine Resource Management, and the faculty is very supportive and aggressive to match students with different projects and funding opportunities. I am very fortunate to be part of such a progressive graduate program and profound scientific community. GO BEAVS!!!"
Saskia Madlener
  • Reviewed: 11/25/2012
  • Degree: Liberal Studies
"The sciences are strong at OSU and you can make your masters program the best program to fit your needs if you are ambitious and diligent. This is not a school that will guide you along your way but you will be given all the tools you need to make a great career for yourself. The town is completely devoid of culture or history, but if you like football and the outdoors you can certainly lead a nice little life here."
Lisa Onstott
  • Reviewed: 11/16/2012
  • Degree: Veterinary Science
"I am a current second year veterinary medicine student at Oregon State University. Let's start out with some cons haha. Of course the workload is demanding and overwhelming at times. The stress level increases and you get caught up in school that you start to forget what is really important in life (like family, friends, socialization, and time to yourself). But the pros are what makes students like myself keep going. The passion and drive to reach our goal of becoming a veterinarian is what motivates us to push on. The professors are wonderful and compassionate about us learning - they know we are the future in vet med. In the end, this is such a small period of time in life and there are so many more years to come. So...study hard and have fun in the process! My motto is to do whatever makes you happy :)"
Denni Ridwan
  • Reviewed: 10/22/2012
  • Degree: Engineering
"I love the living environment in Corvallis, home of the Oregon State University, it is a beautiful city and the people are friendly, which makes me feels at home here and find it comfortable to focus on my study. In terms of quality of education, I think the school does excellent job of supporting the students in reaching their goal, by providing complete facilities (softwares and hardwares) in order to enable the students develop their potential to the highest."
Laia Robichaux
  • Reviewed: 10/19/2012
  • Degree: Social Sciences
"The curriculum is very flexible so students can really focus on what they are specifically interested in."
April Abbott
  • Reviewed: 10/18/2012
  • Degree: Liberal Studies
"Its an amazing program with many of our instructors being leaders in the field. The focus is definitely research, you are taught by researchers so don't expect the teaching quality of smaller teaching focused schools. The professors are amazing at what they do and want to help you to learn what you need to succeed but teaching (in the class room)is a very minor part of their responsibility."
Oleksii Motorykin
  • Reviewed: 10/18/2012
  • Degree: Liberal Studies
"I like the program very much! It's not as hard as at some east-coast universities. A lot of outdoor things to do, very safe and the assistantships are available for science programs!"