Your success at Portland State starts in University Studies, a powerful learning experience that emboldens you to create a more meaningful future for yourself and others.
In University Studies, you won’t do busy work in a big lecture hall to check off your general education requirements. Instead, you'll empower girls at a rock & roll camp, restore beaver habitat to learn about environmental justice, or study sustainable food systems while learning to farm.
You’ll choose a real-world issue that interests you — such as design, pop culture or the environment — and examine it from multiple angles. You’ll still learn important core subjects like science, history and writing, but in a way that lifts you up and makes you feel like you're part of a movement.
Because every time your success inspires others, you change the world.