OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU) is a four-year research and degree-granting public university, located in Corvallis, Oregon in the United States. Total student enrollment (undergraduate and graduate) is more than 19,000. Eighty-one percent of students are Oregon residents. OSU offers more than 200 academic degree programs and is most noted for engineering, environmental sciences, forestry, oceanography, and pharmacy. The university has more majors, minors, and special programs than any other college in Oregon. OSU is one of only two universities in the United States to be designated as a land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant, and sun-grant institution. Cornell University is the other. The Environmental Sciences (ES) Graduate Program provides curricula leading to M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental science.

The curriculum integrates thinking across disciplines, especially life, physical, ...