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Join a community where you can advance your expertise, prepare for a new career, or pursue research that shapes our future.

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Find the Degree that Fits Your Goals

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Master's Programs

Deepen your expertise in a field you care about, build specialized skills, and open doors to more advanced and meaningful work. 

Oregon master's programs combine specialized study with opportunities for professional experiences, collaboration, and research. With increased earning potential, master's graduates go on to succeed in industry, the public and nonprofit sectors, education, entrepreneurship, or advanced study.

Master's Programs

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Doctoral Programs

Push the boundaries of knowledge to generate new ideas, insights, and innovations that shape your field. 

Oregon doctoral students work closely with expert faculty mentors and a small, accomplished community of peers to address complex challenges. Doctoral graduates are prepared for influential, high earning careers leading and innovating across academia, industry, government, business, consulting, nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurship, and beyond. 

Doctoral Programs

Your degree is a starting point, not a limit

Your goals are unique. Your graduate experience should be, too. Connect ideas across fields and develop expertise that supports your career goals.

Combine expertise across complementary fields - such as law and business or physics and education - while earning credentials in both programs.
 

A graduate specialization lets you tailor your degree with focused complementary coursework, so you build expertise aligned with your academic and career goals.
 

Add a certificate to your graduate degree to boost professional credentials, support career pivots, and deepen expertise.

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Turn Curiosity into Expertise

Graduate students at Oregon work alongside faculty mentors to investigate complex questions, develop new solutions, and contribute to discoveries across disciplines. Because education isn't just about acquiring knowledge. It's about using that knowledge to improve lives.

You'll find opportunities to collaborate across fields and contribute to innovative work across campus, including at more than 20 research centers and institutes supported by federal agencies, state governments, and private foundations.


How does the octopus brain work?

Neuroscience doctoral student Angelique Allen came to Cris Niell's lab to find out.

Curiosity about octopus brains earns grad student a prized fellowship

Support for Your Graduate Journey

$2M+
ANNUAL FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
83%
DOCTORAL STUDENTS SUPPORTED THROUGH GRADUATE EMPLOYEE (GE) OPPORTUNITIES
$8M+
AWARDS FROM EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS IN 2024-2025

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Ready to Take the Next Step?

You've explored the possibilities. Now learn how to join the Oregon graduate community.

Have questions about grad school at the UO? Our admissions team is available to help you find the right path. Email gradadmit@uoregon.edu

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