Oregon State's nationally ranked science degrees lead to jobs that are among the fastest-growing jobs in the nation – spanning the fields of sustainability, genetics, data science and more. Science and mathematics programs at Oregon State excel at fusing fundamental knowledge with practical solutions. In the College of Science, we believe it is never too early to start thinking about your future. Start here. Go anywhere.
in research funding in Oregon
of our pre-med students are admitted to medical school (on average) – almost double the national average
of all OSU Honors College students are science majors
Oregon State Science alumni form a global network that is more than 30,000 strong.
Our global network of more than 30,000 alumni are working in meaningful jobs at NASA, Amazon, the Ocean Exploration Trust, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to name a few. Many others work in healthcare facilities, materials science, data science, education, media, business and more.
Julia Zavala is one of seven undergraduate students at Oregon State University to have been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship during the 2020-2021 academic year. The honors biology senior will undertake a paid 10-week pre-med internship in Cordoba, Argentina, during summer 2021 where she will gain a global perspective on healthcare. Oregon State enjoys the distinction of being a top producer of Gilman Scholars. With seven honorees, OSU continues its trend of having students accepted at or greater than the national rate of 25%.
Math, physics and nuclear engineering senior Jesse Rodriguez isn’t your average student by most measures. A transfer student, Rodriguez enjoyed an incredible and wide-ranging learning experience where his classes in the different subjects led him to many wonderful insights about the deeper connections among his majors, and ultimately to a more solid understanding of science itself. He was one of just 26 students in 2018 to earn a prestigious Department of Energy fellowship that will pay for his Ph.D. at Stanford University to study plasma physics.
Michael Kupperman was among the 20 percent of applicants accepted for a Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The paid 10-week internship program is designed to encourage undergraduates and recent graduates to pursue STEM careers through research experiences at one of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories.
Megan Tucker will graduate next month with a substantial amount of research experience under her belt: She was awarded the Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship, which gave her the opportunity to work on an interdisciplinary team at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Albany, Oregon, during the summer of 2019. The new knowledge gained from her internship helped her land a job as a technical writer with Amazon Web Services — a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments.