Oregon State University is a land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, whose history dates from 1868, when Corvallis College was designated as the state’s land-grant institution. Its College of Agricultural Sciences has 13 academic departments and 12 academic programmes, more than 3,000 students and, it says, $90 million in research grants and contracts. Departments include Animal & Rangeland Sciences, Applied Economics, Crop & Soil Science, Food Science & Technology, and Horticulture.
The college’s dean also directs the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, created in 1888 under the Hatch Act, which runs research and experiment stations across the state. They include the North Willamette Research and Extension Center, the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center, the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center and the Seafood Research & Education Center in Astoria. The college’s centres include the Global Hemp Innovation Center and the Center for Sensory & Consumer Behavior Research. Forestry is taught in a separate College of Forestry.