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Oregon State University – Cascades is OSU's campus in Bend. Get the personal attention of a small campus. The strengths of Oregon's leading public research university. And a campus surrounded by 2.5 million acres of national forests and public lands.
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Our faculty are teachers, mentors and world-class researchers. They will guide you, challenge you and inspire you to be the best version of yourself — so you're ready to take on some of the world's biggest challenges.
Oregon State University was founded more than 150 years ago as a land grant institution, building on the idea that everybody deserves access to education. When it opened in 2016, the OSU-Cascades campus fulfilled a 30-year quest for higher education in what had been the largest region in the state without a four-year university. We are growing for Central Oregon and beyond.
Your adventure starts in Bend
Schedule a personalized tour, check out our award-winning student housing and have lunch at the Beaver Dam. In-person tours are available Monday through Friday, or go on a virtual tour.
News & Events
OSU-Cascades has launched the Energy Innovation Center to accelerate research and development in energy technologies in Central Oregon and beyond. The center will focus in areas such as energy storage and carbon capture and abatement, and will help advance the work of entrepreneurs and companies focused on energy solutions.
OSU-Cascades has opened a new studio to help students in its outdoor products and engineering programs design and prototype innovative gear and equipment.
The 1,500-square-foot OP:EN studio—named to reflect outdoor products and engineering —was funded by the Oregon Legislature to help grow the state’s outdoor recreation economy.
Dennis Lynn, a retiring senior instructor of human development and family sciences, will give the address at OSU-Cascades’ commencement ceremony on June 14.
“Beyond his teaching, Dennis has had a profound impact on the OSU-Cascades community by seeing the potential in everyone he encounters—students, fellow employees and community members,” said Becky Johnson, then interim chancellor and dean of OSU-Cascades.