University of Oregon

University of Oregon, what a gorgeous campus you have…
I remember like it was yesterday when I arrived on campus for my first incoming freshman tour.
The campus was immaculate, lush with beautiful trees, and filled with warm smiles and welcoming faculty. I felt right at home.
I had come from Berkeley, California and was used to the chaos found on the very spread out UC Berkeley campus so touring the more compact grounds of UO was perfect.
The school itself is by no means small but what I appreciate is not only how much care goes into maintenance and presentation, but the fact that maneuvering about is a piece of cake. All the buildings are labeled accordingly and it makes that first day of class all the less intimidating.
The faculty are exceptionally friendly, some of the nicest people I’ve encountered. They’ve always been incredibly knowledgable and more than happy to accommodate any needs or ease any concerns.
Transitioning to this university couldn’t have been nicer. I even opted to begin summer courses before my first fall term to get a sense of what a college lecture would really feel like.
The classes are smaller but it’s a great way to connect with professors (especially if you already have an intended major in mind) and meet some fellow students, highly recommend for incoming freshman or transfer students!
During the weekends the campus makes for an amazing area to walk about and explore, since it’s typically less crowded.
There are also cute food trucks spread about the entry gates or there is the Marche Provisions Café, tucked away near the Knight Library if you are looking for a quick bite to eat or a delicious espresso beverage.
Thank you for so many wonderful memories and letting me truly enjoy your remarkable campus, University of Oregon, it’s been a pleasure!

Relatively large selection of grocery items and classes, I would definitely come back again.

Fantastic University in a relatively small town. The Ducks are a Pac 12 POWERHOUSE. Football, Basketball, and Track and Field.
Autzen Stadium seats over 54,000. (In a city of only 156,222 people) Marcus Mariota, the 2015 Heisman Trophy winner was the star Ducks Quarterback in that year.
Matthew Knight Arena opened on January 13^th, 2011 and seats 12,364 and has over 130 women’s toilets, 65 men’s toilets and 4 family toilet. (Right ON!)
Hayward Field seats up to 21,000 and will be the site of the Prefontaine Classic, NCAA Outdoor Championships, and the USA Outdoor Championships in 2015.
Accounting, biology, or architecture. Explore environmental studies and geography or mix material and product studies, philosophy, and economics. With more than 270 science and liberal arts options available, you WILL find what you want academically here!
Make sure you check this University out!

There are so many great memories made at this school. How can I possibly finish a review in one sitting?! I’ll definitely be writing more later. For now…
I was pretty homesick when I came here my freshman year.
My love for the friends I made in the Riley Dorms helped me through the transition. The food at Barnhart was quite excellent, especially the sunday breakfast /​brunch. I still can’t find better waffles. Call it nostalgia, call it having it made right in front of you! Either way, I miss it.

My 900^th review (Geez, I really should get paid for this) is for my son’s new home for the next 4 years. Let’s just hope and pray it’s four years. 1 – 3 and something went wrong. 5 – 6 and I will go broke. The tours were very well organized, the campus is just beautiful and the 18 month search for a college just ended. I’m a die hard UCLA alumni and fan but I will be rooting on the Ducks as much as I can bear (get it… Bruin Bear?)

I know that I’m supposed to follow the yellow brick road but yellow duck tracks count, too, right?! Beautiful place to visit and great place for an education

We toured this campus on the first leg of our vacation (in summer so it was nearly a ghost town). What a beautiful place to go to college! We were impressed with not only how clean the campus was but the interesting and historical architecture. Mixed modern and early century. Plus the plethora of plants, trees and gorgeous flowers — the landscapers I’m sure work heartily to keep it pristine.
Although this is not our Alma Mater we still enjoyed the campus and the feel of the whole place. Plus, it’s one of the largest campuses I’ve ever been on. It was nice to be able to show our daughter what a possible future at a beautiful campus in a good Oregon city could be like (we are from No. Cal). If you’re an Out of Towner, I’d suggest taking the time to tour this campus. Plus make sure you hit the Duck Store!

On my college touring, I could honestly say that U of O was my least favorite campus. Kinda old and stuck in the cloudy Oregon funk, I’m not really sure how much of this is a fault of the school, or simply being in Oregon. Meh.

My Son is now a High School Senior and perhaps not quite ready for College. At the same time, I want to give him a peak of what this future might look like, but without any undue parental pressure. As it happened, I was up in Portland a few weeks ago for his parent-​teacher conference and decided (with his permission) to drive down to Eugene and have us take a tour of the University of Oregon Campus.
The University runs regular tours out of the Ford Alumni Center. They also offer an option of meeting (in assembly) with Admissions personnel to answer related nuts-​and-​bolts questions. My Son and I declined that opportunity and really enjoyed our extensive tour around Campus. We were led by Drew, a student volunteer from the Bay Area. In fact, all of the student volunteers that day and quite a few folks on the tour were from California. Maybe they think that Eugene is some idyllic escape from the UC Berkeley or UCLA hordes?
I liked the University of Oregon Campus a lot. It was pretty, the fall colors were out, and it seemed some peaceful quiet on this Saturday morning. It also helped that there was no Ducks football game that day. It’s a relatively big school at ~26,000 students, but had the feel of a small college at the same time. I would be proud and honored to have my Son go here, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves… But I did buy him a nice U of O folder for his school papers and a Duck Dad coin for good luck. :)

Innaccurate information on shows on the EMU page! Thanks for the waste of time. No mention of «Student ID Required». Good work, I told TONS of people about this!
Update Edit: My exclusion order (of course) got overturned. Good work «Public Safety».

Even though I attended a small private school for my college education, I would highly recommend this University to any family looking for a 4 year home for their kids. Beautiful city, low crime rate, hometown feel, great restaurants and outdoor activities. The law and business programs are as good as any in the country and the sports are religion. Go Ducks… WIn The Day!

One guy writes that the campus is breathtaking in its beauty. That guy sure doesn’t get out much, It’s ridiculous to think that U of O is aesthetically singular. Look, the place is a complete rip off, it’s far too expensive for what it provides, none of its departments are outstanding or even good, it lives on its reputation of being an outstanding party school, very easy entrance requirements, and not at all challenging once someone gets in. It’s recent Presidents were nothing more than cheerleaders for the athletic department, Frohnmayer’s most important task was getting the disaster of the Knight basketball arena built by spewing nonsense as to why it needed to exist.
If you want a better education, then try any of the other public universities. Or start at Lane Community College prior to transferring, save some money and get a far better teacher to guide you. U of O isn’t close to whatever the money is that they demand to attend…

Bottom line: Without the UO, Eugene would be a complete and utter wasteland. Population wise, we are about the same size as Sioux Falls, SD, Salinas, CA, and Salem just a bit to the north of us. Imagine Eugene without the university and shudder.
A major state university brings professors and grad students and bicycles, which lead to art-​house movie theaters, mildly progressive politics, natural food stores, etc.
Then again: «We’re the University of Nike, and we embrace that.»
The professors are underpaid compared to their colleagues at the schools in our football conference, and our campus pales in comparison to those in Berkeley, Seattle, and Tucson. Even Oregon State has a MUCH nicer primary library than the UO.
Best case scenario, the University of Oregon is about 10 years into a 50 year plan that leads it to becoming a nationally respected university for its academics. The outsized attention and resources devoted to football aren’t exactly an original blueprint – many land grant state schools in the Midwest built their reputations on football success and the ensuing alumni donations. And the Ivy League schools did this like 100 years ago, and it worked out for them.
Worst case scenario, the University of Oregon is a marketing whorehouse in the service of big-​money capitalist interests. They use young men as modern-​day slaves, branding them with a swoosh and aiming for maximum television exposure. They are using this publicity, plus the failure of the California university system, to rapidly expand their mediocre undergraduate ranks (C’s get degrees!) with kids who can pay full freight and will grow up to be mindless automatons in services of said capitalist interests.
The truth, I figure, is somewhere in between. My partner and I both got advanced degrees here and, while we’ll never be invited to the Davos Conference or confused for major intellectual leaders of the world, we got what we needed for the middle-​class-​with-​mild-​snobbery lifestyle we can live here.
If my daughter wanted to go to UO, I’d be happy that she wasn’t a stripper.

God. Seriously, I love this school so much. Out of all the schools that I have visited, I enjoyed this one the most and am happiest here the most. Of course this is entirely subjective, but I never felt more «at home» than I do here, not even back home in CA. Oddly enough, whenever I return to the Bay Area to visit family, I become less & less inclined and more hesitant to come back. I feel very accepted here (although I do get the occasional ignorant question about my culture) but I joke about myself all the time so it’s not a big deal, depending on the seriousness of the question or how poorly educated this so-​called person is.
I’ve had soo much fun pretending I’m a foreign exchange student and putting up a fake strong accent just to get on people’s nerves and seeing their «Ohhhh wowww, that is very wonderful!» (slow voice), it’s hilarious!!!
Anyway, I came here to continue school and pursue a chemistry degree after a couple year hiatus and was considering this school or OSU in Corvallis for science. UO is known for their green chemistry as the preferred form of method in the labs, but from what I had read previously, I heard some past college students felt the chemistry departments were not challenging enough. I was like whatever, I don’t want anything that’s gonna strip me of my social life, which I am lacking anyway! Yeah. Thanks for the heads up, student reviews, I still lack a social life. Now imagine what would’ve happened if I went to OSU…
Reasons for choosing this school:
–Campus looks so much more beautiful and less boring than OSU
–Track town; I’m a runner so this is pretty awesome. Plus less fatties. Take those chins and tuck’em in! (I made that up, I’m copyrighting that shit, bitches!)
–LGBT friendly. Come on, hoootttttt girls, too much eye candy may possibly give me a seizure :(
–Stoner town/​420 friendly (I think this is a very obvious given)
–Everyone I’ve encountered here has been nothing but friendly and always smiling (for me at least), although I hear it’s not necessarily the case for others
–All the local shops and stores + eco-​friendly + vegan/​vegetarian friendly town
–bike-​friendly town with LOTS of bike lanes!
— …hot girls
–hoped for a not too stressful academic life in the science arena
It’s easy to meet people and talk to people, but keeping and creating close friendships is a bit tough. So far I found 1 – 2 people while 1 – 2 others who became close to me just came and went.
What I didn’t like:
— Seriously, you can’t get away from the «O» logo. It’s everywhere you go.
— greek system: large amounts of bros and bimbos, I’m not kidding. Lucky for me (and possibly for you) it’s EXTREMELY to get away from… just don’t hang too much around the Journalism & Business people.
–I feel like even though there are other Asians here, people don’t really blend their friendship circles with different races (pretty common universally though), although they’re open to, but it just leads to really ridiculous lack of knowledge about EVERYTHING. Not everything has to do with my culture, man.
Example of what I get: «So in Hong Kong, do they also serve American food too, or? Like, fries?»
–my chemistry advisor is very unhelpful and gives very misleading information that nearly set my chemistry career backwards. I rarely ever go to advisors or like to take advice, but I tried to just flow with it, and realized they just aren’t helpful.
Other departments and staff are pretty awesome though
–In the bay area, I literally almost never meet people who have similar tastes in music or interests as I do. When I meet one, I get VERY excited (and still do). Here, I have almost no trouble meeting people who share the same interests as I do.
–I had literally no social life or ability to wander to clubs and groups due to excessive studying indoors.
You don’t really need a car here, but it certainly helps when you want to go to Portland or whatever other places with ease. Otherwise you could take the Amtrak or the Greyhound (highly not recommended unless you want to sit next to a meth head or smell like piss the remaining of the day).
This sounds possibly racist to my own kind but, I also came here to get away from all the Asians I encountered back in the Bay Area. Coming here was SO MUCH more refreshing! I like to meet people of all kinds & backgrounds, but when it comes to a point where your friend base becomes homogenous… there is a real problem.
If you sports fans really care about the sports aspect of a school, which I don’t, we’ve got a great football team & track team, and we’re in the Pac-​10/​12
Oh yeah, another reason I considered this school: Our school colors are green & yellow, and although that doesn’t sound too appeasing, OSU’s school colors are orange & black. For those of you who were in the same dilemma as me. Just sayin’. Would you want to go to school that constantly is stuck in a morbid halloween theme without the fun and costumes, or bright sorta-​acceptable colors?

GO DUCKS!
This is the best university in Oregon, and now our football team kicks ass too. Beautiful, green campus with many historic buildings. My favorite part of campus is the Knight Library, it’s bright, airy and has a very extensive collection, the best in the North-​West. Great place to sit and work, though you can’t access the wireless internet if you’re not a student or faculty member. I wish they’d change that, at least in the library.

My husband and I were visiting a cousin in grants pass. He is a huge sports aficionado, so we checked out the Duck territory.
Overall we loved the campus and layout of the school! The football stadium is hands down the nicest we have ever seen. Even better than Stanford and Berkeley!

I’ve been a fan of the Ducks for a long time, so my review may be skewed somewhat. I’m a nontraditional student and have a bit of a different view than the 18 to 20-​somethings. I am working my way through the program for a BA in Journalism with a focus on PR.
I find the School of Journalism and Communications (SOJC) to be a great school and very helpful. The non-​journalism courses I’ve taken seem to be top-​notch too. The school is a business, but they care for students and the process of learning.
The campus is a picturesque scene of trees and foliage that have trails that take people to their classes. Overall, I think the campus is a great asset to the UO.
I’m pleased that I choose the UO to attend and if I had it to do over again I still would because my experience has been very positive. I can’t speak to much for the other colleges at the University, but the SOJC is a great choice for anyone who wants to take up a major in journalism and communications.

I had the BEST three years of my life here. This university is big enough where you dont see the same people everyday but small enough where if you walk down 13^th street you will spot some familiar faces. The campus is BEAUTIFUL with so many trees, squirrels, and ducks (yes i did say ducks) running around. I love how the campus is compact and that I can get from one end of the campus to another in about 15 minutes.
Football here is amazing. The duck spirit is always high and always present. I’m not sure if i like the online ticketing system but hey I got civil war tickets before so i’m not complaining.
The math department SUCKS here. I remembered orientation they told us 70% of students fail out of Math111 and I was one of those students. I hated math and I will always hate math but they could get some better GTFs teaching math.
I was a psychology major and honestly the psychology department here lacks in quality. I mean 11 classes to get a psychology major? Seriously? Overall, the psychology program did allow me to graduate a year early so i’m grateful for that.
Overall, the U of O is amazing. I dont regret ever once of coming here. I met some of the best people here. I love this university and Go DUCKS!

My review is only for the beauty of this campus. I am not a student, staff or faculty of the campus. I just came here to visit and after visiting it made me want to go for grad school here. The campus is absolutely beautiful. The buildings are gorgeous, especially their library and their business building. I think that is my favorite building. I was upset that it was so nice. I love architecture of the buildings. In fact, i want to marry an architect right now. I love how their ducks roam around the campus, leaving their footprints behind. So cute!!!

The Ambassadors Program did an amazing job touring our high school students. They were able to match our group with someone from the Bay Area who went to a smaller school like our students. She was great and answered questions honestly and with enthusiasm. The campus is amazing and very artsy which impressed many of our students. Several students organizations came out and talked to our students as we were touring about the different services they offer, publications and workshops. Although is was downpour times fifty (which was good for our hs students to see how Oregon really is at sometimes) we were able to walk the campus.
Interesting points– 1% of budget goes towards art around the campus. we saw some amazing sculptures and artwork. I LOVED the architecture of the campus buildings.
I highly recommend checking out the campus as an alternative to the UCs and CSUs… as fees increase here in CA folks should start looking towards out of state schools as an option (since going to the UC is starting to cost as much as paying out of state tuition to other schools)