Academics
Oregon Tech has earned a substantial regional reputation for excellent academic programs in the various professional disciplines of engineering, technology and health professions, resulting in its graduates being heavily recruited by companies in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. Admission information reported by the university indicates an average SAT score and GPA of 1060 and 3.51, respectively, with 85% of the student population being residents of the state of Oregon. Oregon Tech has a dual enrollment agreement with Portland Community College.
Oregon Institute of Technology earned a spot among 650 other four-year baccalaureate colleges in the Forbes 2011 America's Best Colleges list. Oregon Tech also earned U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2012 awards. The awards included placing #8 in the West's best regional baccalaureate colleges and placing alongside the 60 other educational institutions with the best engineering programs in the United States.
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)
“Our first line of defense in raising children with values is modeling good behavior ourselves. This is critical. How will our kids learn tolerance for others if our hearts are filled with hate? Learn compassion if we are indifferent? Perceive academics as important if soccer practice is a higher priority than homework?”
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