Portland State University Top Questions

Describe how Portland State University looks to someone who's never seen it.

jocelyn

My school is the heart of downtown Portland that is ideal for liberals and poets, law men and dancers, advocates and explorers because we bring the world in together for a melting pot of diversity and experience.

Brooke

This school is urban, unique, diverse, and a great center for higher education.

Emily

Portland State is a commuter school with a wide range of classes and majors to focus on, but very little in the way of help or caring from faculty or other students; if you want to meet people, you will have to really put yourself out there!

Angela

Busy, but laid back. Green, forward thinking, and progressive. Very community oriented.

Halley

PSU is a mid-sized, very environmentally-friendly campus, with an ethnically/culturally diverse population of students mostly in their mid-to-late twenties.

Roman

My college campus is a school intended to help its students succeed in learning and retaining information concerning career of personal choice.

jeff

Very liberal, but great education for the money spent.

Samuel

We are variety unified in purpose.

Katie

Big commuter school with wide range of both small and large class sizes.

Sarah

A colorful, never-ending variety of activites, students, professors, and classes with a focus only on what the student wants to get out of college.....not what the university wants you to get out of college, while still maintaining a strong academic, athletic, a career-oriented setting.