University of Portland Top Questions

Difficult curriculum and a strong nursing program

The University of Portland is best known for their excellent nursing, business, and engineering programs. They are also recognized as being a small/medium size school with great statistics of students graduating with jobs in their fields. The students and faculty at the university are extremel welcoming and supportive, and make it easy to adjust to living on one's own in a new learning environment.

The school is well known for the great programs it provides for those who wish to become nurses, engineers or teachers. They ensure, especially for nursing and teaching majors, that the students are getting the experience they need for their career choice. In fact, most of the teaching majors start working within a classroom in their first year. Nursing majors will start working in hospitals in their third year. This is great for allowing the students to gain some experience and ties to workplaces for later use.

The small class sizes and great one on one interaction with the professors. My classes are almost all under 30 students and its really easy to approach professors during their office hours so establishing a relationship with your professor is easy. Its great how professors can actually communicate with students during class.

UP is known for good academics, small class sizes and highly sought after graduates.

University of Portland is known for educating the hearts and minds of students.

The University of Portland is best known for their nursing program and their engineering program. It also is known for it's dedication to community service and the extracurricualr acitivities for the students.

Our amazing nursing and engineering programs! We pump out some great people.

My school is best known for it's well-roundedness. University of Portland excels in both academics and athletics. It has been rated highly among other schools and the soccer teams have won nationally. The students are exposed to many cultures and is extremely diverse. The community is great and I feel so comfortable and welcome that I could talk to anyone.

My school is best known for the quality of its academic programs and the women's soccer team.