City/Region Digest.Byline: The Register-Guard LOCAL Magazine ranks UO in its second tier CORRECTION (ran 9/15/02): Several Oregon colleges and universities were listed in U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of schools. The UO was the top-ranked Oregon university in the category of schools that offer a variety of undergraduate majors as well as master's and doctoral degrees. A story in Saturday's paper didn't specify the ranking category. The University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. is the only university in the state to rank as high as the second tier in an influential rating issued annually by U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. . The UO's ranking, its second-straight in the second tier, left it behind the highest-ranked schools, led by Princeton, Harvard and Yale universities Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was . But the UO was listed higher than Oregon State University Oregon State University, at Corvallis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1858 as Corvallis College, opened 1865. In 1868 it was designated Oregon's land-grant agricultural college and was taken over completely by the state in 1885. and Portland State University, ranked in the third and fourth tiers, respectively. "This ranking is reflective of the high quality of UO students and top quality of UO research," John Moseley, UO senior vice president and provost, said Friday in a written statement. Moseley said the UO would have ranked higher but that the state's relatively low level of funding hurts the university under the magazine's ranking methodology. The University of Washington was the only Northwest school “Northwest School” redirects here. For other uses, see Northwest School (disambiguation). The Northwest School (originally The Northwest School of the Arts, Humanities and Environment listed in the first tier. Washington State University Washington State University, at Pullman; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1890, opened 1892 as an agriculture college. From 1905 to 1959 it was the State College of Washington. was in the second tier. The magazine's ranking included 249 universities (162 public and 87 private) that offer a variety of undergraduate majors as well as master's and doctoral degrees. |
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