Oregon State University is located in Covali, Oregon, on the west coast of the United States, about 90 miles from Portland, the state capital and largest city. Covali has been rated as one of the most livable cities in the United States by Forbes for many years. This city is one of the important high-tech centers and financial centers in America. Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Apple, Dell and Microsoft all have multiple R&D centers here, and many famous banks around the world, such as Morgan Stanley and Citibank, have established financial database centers here, providing students with abundant internship and employment resources.
In the past 150 years, Oregon State University has trained a large number of leaders and elites for the world, including as many as 12 Nobel Prize winners, NVIDIA's co-founder and CEO, Hewlett-Packard's former president and CEO and other famous figures who are also alumni of the school. At the same time, Oregon State University is the only school in Oregon recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as the top academic institution in the United States. According to the ranking of universities published by American News, this university ranks 56th in the United States with undergraduate degree 135, and is a first-class national university in the United States. Its undergraduate online courses rank seventh in the United States, and nuclear energy engineering, bioengineering, agricultural engineering, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and other majors rank in the top 50 in the United States.