Portland State University

Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States, founded in 1946 as the Vanport Extension Center for returning Second World War veterans and granted university status in 1969.波特兰州立大学（Portland State University，简称 PSU）是美国俄勒冈州波特兰市中心的公立研究型大学，1946 年作为面向二战退伍军人的范波特进修中心创办，1969 年获得大学地位。

It occupies a 50-acre campus in the city's University District, enrols about 21,000 students and is classified among R2 doctoral universities with high research activity.该校在波特兰大学区拥有约 50 英亩的校园，注册学生约 21,000 人，被卡内基分类列为“R2：博士型大学—高研究活动”。

PSU sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, holds a place in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education ranking 2027, is 1,338th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News table and is absent from the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list.该校位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 801-1000 区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》榜单中排名第 1,338 位，未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• Stephen Edward Epler, an Iowa-born veterans' counsellor working in Oregon's General Extension Division, founded the Vanport Extension Center in June 1946 to absorb the postwar demand for higher education under the G.I. Bill.斯蒂芬·爱德华·埃普勒（Stephen Edward Epler）是爱荷华出身、在俄勒冈州普通推广部工作的退伍军人辅导员，他于 1946 年 6 月创办范波特进修中心，以承接《退伍军人权利法》带来的战后高教需求。
• The first summer session enrolled 221 students at Vanport Junior High School with tuition and fees of 50 dollars, and the site beside a Columbia River slough earned the nickname the U by the Slough.首个暑期学期在范波特初中招到 221 名学生，学费与杂费共 50 美元，由于校舍紧邻哥伦比亚河的一条汊道，学校得了个“汊边大学”的绰号。
• More than 1,410 students registered for the autumn term of 1946, which had to be delayed to 7 October because the centre had nowhere to put them.1946 年秋季学期注册人数超过 1,410 人，由于中心没有足够的场地，开学被迫推迟到 10 月 7 日。
• Classes spilled into two childcare centres, a recreation building, a converted shopping centre, and the evening classrooms of Lincoln and Jefferson high schools and the University of Oregon's Portland medical and dental schools.课堂分散在两处托儿中心、一栋娱乐楼、一处改建的购物中心，以及林肯与杰斐逊两所高中的夜校教室和俄勒冈大学在波特兰的医学与牙科学院。
• The Vanport Flood of 30 May 1948 destroyed the settlement around the school, and the college refused to close, earning the name the college that would not die from a student writing in the Christian Science Monitor.1948 年 5 月 30 日的范波特洪水摧毁了学校周边的聚居区，学院拒绝停办，一名学生在《基督教科学箴言报》撰文，使学校获得“死不了的学院”之称。
• After the flood the college used Grant High School for the summer of 1948 and then hastily converted buildings at the Oregon Shipyard before moving downtown in 1953.洪水之后，学院在 1948 年夏季借用格兰特高中，随后迁入俄勒冈船厂仓促改建的房屋，并于 1953 年搬进市中心。
• The downtown move took over the vacated buildings of Lincoln High School on SW Broadway, including Lincoln Hall, long known as Old Main and still the university's ceremonial centre.迁入市中心时，学校接管了百老汇街西南段林肯高中腾出的校舍，其中包括长期被称为“老主楼”的林肯楼，该楼至今仍是学校的礼仪中心。
• The institution was renamed the Portland State Extension Center between December 1951 and February 1952, and became Portland State College in 1955 when it won the right to award four-year degrees.该校于 1951 年 12 月至 1952 年 2 月间改称波特兰州立进修中心，1955 年获得四年制学位授予权后改称波特兰州立学院。
• The state board placed severe limits on the college's curriculum and growth and declined to appoint Epler as president, so he left in 1955 to lead Reedley College in California.州教育委员会对学院的课程与扩张施加严格限制，并拒绝任命埃普勒为校长，他遂于 1955 年离职，前往加州出任里德利学院院长。
• Oregon's 1929 rule that no public institution could duplicate another's programmes restricted PSU's growth for decades, with grandfather clauses protecting the University of Oregon and Oregon State University.俄勒冈州 1929 年规定公立院校不得重复他人开设的专业，这一规定在数十年间限制了该校的扩张，而俄勒冈大学与俄勒冈州立大学享有既得豁免。
• Graduate programmes were added in 1961, doctoral programmes in 1972, and the Oregon State Board of Higher Education granted university status in 1969, creating Portland State University.该校 1961 年增设研究生项目，1972 年增设博士项目，俄勒冈州高等教育委员会则于 1969 年授予大学地位，波特兰州立大学由此成立。
• Incoming president Gregory Wolfe complained in 1968 that the campus buildings were evidence of Stalinist cubism, a remark that captured the architectural controversy of the expansion years.1968 年上任的校长格雷戈里·沃尔夫（Gregory Wolfe）抱怨校园建筑像是“斯大林式立体主义”的产物，这句话概括了扩张年代的建筑争议。
• In 1993 the university abolished the traditional distribution requirements and replaced them with University Studies, an interdisciplinary programme built on freshman inquiry, sophomore inquiry, junior clusters and a senior capstone.1993 年，该校废除传统的课程分布要求，代之以“大学研究”跨学科课程，由大一探究课、大二探究课、大三专题组与毕业顶峰项目构成。
• The senior capstone requires every student to join a community organisation on a project of their choosing, and it ends with a public presentation of what the team learned.毕业顶峰项目要求每名学生加入一家社区机构、完成自选课题，并以公开展示的形式汇报团队的收获。
• University Studies drew national attention for its learning communities and service learning, and U.S. News has repeatedly listed it among programmes to look for.“大学研究”因其学习共同体与服务学习而受到全国关注，《美国新闻与世界报道》多次把它列入“值得关注的项目”。
• In 1995, two years before his death, the university honoured Epler for founding the institution that became PSU.1995 年，即埃普勒去世前两年，学校公开表彰他创办了后来发展为波特兰州立大学的这所机构。
• In 2003 the university won approval to award degrees in Black Studies, and it opened a centre housed in the Native American Student and Community Center.2003 年，该校获批授予黑人研究学位，并在美洲原住民学生与社区中心内设立了一个新的中心。
• In 2004 the College of Engineering and Computer Science was renamed the Maseeh College after Fariborz Maseeh, an alumnus and investor whose gift endowed the college.2004 年，工程与计算机科学学院以校友、投资人法里博尔兹·马西（Fariborz Maseeh）之名更名为马西学院，他的捐赠为该学院提供了基金。
• In August 2020 the president announced that campus police would stop carrying firearms, a policy that took effect in September 2021 and was later reversed by early 2023.2020 年 8 月，校长宣布校园警察不再佩枪执勤，该政策于 2021 年 9 月生效，但到 2023 年初又被撤销。
• In 2025 the Oregon Legislature designated Portland State as the state's Urban Research University, recognising its role as a public research institution embedded in a metropolitan centre.2025 年，俄勒冈州议会指定波特兰州立大学为该州的“城市研究型大学”，确认其作为扎根大都市中心的公立研究机构的角色。

Academics

• The university offers undergraduate degrees in 123 fields and postgraduate degrees in 117, organised into seven constituent colleges and schools along with an honours college.该校在 123 个领域开设本科学位、在 117 个领域开设研究生学位，教学单位分为七个学院与学校，另设一个荣誉学院。
• The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the largest unit and teaches the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences that underpin the University Studies curriculum.文理学院是最大的教学单位，承担支撑“大学研究”课程的人文学科、社会科学与自然科学教学。
• The Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science focuses on infrastructure, transportation, environmental systems, computing and urban resilience, often in partnership with regional industry.马西工程与计算机科学学院聚焦基础设施、交通、环境系统、计算与城市韧性，常与区域产业伙伴合作。
• The College of Urban and Public Affairs houses the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, whose graduate planning programme is ranked among the best in the United States.城市与公共事务学院下设诺哈德·A·图兰城市研究与规划学院，其研究生规划项目在全美名列前茅。
• The School of Social Work is nationally recognised, and its Regional Research Institute and Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services account for about a fifth of externally funded research.社会工作学院享有全国声誉，其区域研究所与儿童及家庭服务改进中心合计承担约五分之一的外部资助科研。
• The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health is run jointly with Oregon Health & Science University, and the School of Business Administration and College of Education complete the academic map.公共卫生学院与俄勒冈健康与科学大学合办，商学院与教育学院则补全了学科版图。
• The University Honors College admits a small cohort each year and requires a thesis, giving high-achieving undergraduates a liberal arts core inside a large public university.大学荣誉学院每年招收小规模学生并要求完成毕业论文，使优秀本科生得以在这所大型公立大学内接受博雅教育。
• Graduate education includes more than 70 master's programmes, over 30 graduate certificates and 20 doctoral programmes, with recent doctorates added in mathematics, biology, chemistry and computer science.研究生教育包括 70 多个硕士项目、30 多个研究生证书项目与 20 个博士项目，近年新增的博士点包括数学、生物学、化学与计算机科学。
• PSU awarded 6,050 degrees in 2014-15, including 4,250 bachelor's, 1,725 master's and 75 doctoral degrees, a profile typical of a metropolitan teaching and research university.该校在 2014-15 学年授予 6,050 个学位，其中学士 4,250 个、硕士 1,725 个、博士 75 个，这一结构与典型的大都市教学研究型大学相符。
• Admission is comparatively open for a state university, with acceptance rates reported at 95 per cent in 2012 and 61 per cent in a 2015 Forbes survey.作为州立大学，其录取相对开放，2012 年报道的录取率为 95%，2015 年《福布斯》调查给出的录取率为 61%。
• Transfer agreements with Portland Community College and Clackamas Community College admit holders of the Oregon transfer degree at junior level.该校与波特兰社区学院及克拉克马斯社区学院签有转学协议，持有俄勒冈转学副学士学位者可直接进入三年级。
• The Criminology and Criminal Justice division offers a fully online bachelor's degree, one of the first at PSU, together with certificates in crime analysis and criminal behaviour.犯罪学与刑事司法部开设完全在线的本科学位，是该校最早的在线学位之一，并提供犯罪分析与犯罪行为方向的证书项目。
• Research is classified as R2 and concentrates on urban systems, sustainability, public policy and workforce development, with most projects conducted alongside local and state agencies.该校科研属 R2 类别，集中于城市系统、可持续性、公共政策与劳动力发展，多数项目与地方及州级机构合作开展。
• The university library holds collections in urban planning, social work, engineering and Pacific Northwest history, and it serves a student body that includes many part-time and returning adults.大学图书馆收藏城市规划、社会工作、工程与太平洋西北地方史文献，服务的学生群体中有大量非全日制与重返校园的成年人。
• Continuing education runs through the Center for Executive and Professional Education, which offers non-credit short courses and custom training for organisations.继续教育由高管与专业教育中心承担，提供非学分的短期课程以及面向机构的定制培训。
• The faculty includes scholars in urban studies, social work and sustainability who hold joint appointments with city and regional agencies, a pattern that reflects the university's applied mission.教师队伍中有城市研究、社会工作与可持续性领域的学者与市政及区域机构保持双聘关系，这一模式体现了该校的应用型使命。

Campus

• The campus covers about 50 acres in southwest downtown Portland, bounded by Clay Street, Fourth Avenue, Interstate 405 and 12th Avenue, in an area known as the University District.校园占地约 50 英亩，位于波特兰市中心西南部的大学区，北至克莱街、东至第四大道、南至 405 号州际公路、西至第十二大道，紧靠西侧山地，是俄勒冈州少数坐落于大都市核心的公立校园之一。
• SW Broadway runs through the centre, where Lincoln Hall, Cramer Hall, Smith Memorial Student Union, Fariborz Maseeh Hall and Shattuck Hall stand within a few blocks of one another.百老汇街西南段穿过校园中心，林肯楼、克莱默楼、史密斯纪念学生会、法里博尔兹·马西楼与沙特克楼在几个街区之内相邻而立。
• Cramer Hall, Smith Memorial and Fariborz Maseeh Hall are linked by basement tunnels and upper-level skybridges, so students cross between them without stepping onto the street.克莱默楼、史密斯纪念楼与马西楼由地下通道和上层天桥相连，学生往返其间无需走到街面。
• The South Park Blocks run along the campus edge from Lincoln Hall at Market Street to Shattuck Hall, giving the university a formal green frontage in the city grid.南公园街区沿校园边缘延伸，从市场街的林肯楼一直到沙特克楼，使这所大学在城市网格中拥有一段规整的绿色正面。
• The northern edge of campus is eight blocks from Pioneer Courthouse Square and four from the Portland Art Museum, and the Keller Auditorium stands at the north-western corner.校园北缘距先锋法院广场八个街区、距波特兰艺术博物馆四个街区，凯勒礼堂则位于西北角。
• A 62 million dollar student recreation centre opened in 2010 with a LEED Gold rating, adding an aquatic centre, climbing wall, courts and fitness space to the Urban Center quadrangle.造价 6,200 万美元的学生活动中心于 2010 年启用，获 LEED 金级认证，在城市中心方院一带增添了游泳馆、攀岩墙、球场与健身空间。
• The student-managed PSU Film Committee runs the 5th Avenue Cinema, one of the few student-operated theatres in the United States, showing repertory and independent films.由学生管理的电影委员会经营第五大道影院，这是美国少数由学生运营的影院之一，放映经典复映与独立影片。
• Ten residence halls house about 3,000 students, among them the sixteen-storey University Pointe opened in 2011 and the fifteen-storey Ondine.十栋宿舍楼容纳约 3,000 名学生，其中包括 2011 年启用的十六层大学角公寓与十五层的昂丁楼。
• Older halls include Montgomery Court of 1916, St. Helens Court of 1927, the Blackstone of 1930, the art deco Parkway Manor of 1931 and Blumel Hall of 1986.较旧的宿舍包括 1916 年的蒙哥马利庭院、1927 年的圣海伦庭院、1930 年的布莱克斯通楼、1931 年装饰艺术风格的帕克韦庄园以及 1986 年的布鲁梅尔楼。
• The campus is served by TriMet's MAX light rail, the Portland Streetcar and fifteen bus lines, and it has one of the largest cycling populations of any American university.校园由 TriMet 的 MAX 轻轨、波特兰有轨电车与十五条公交线路服务，其骑行通勤人数在全美大学中位居前列。

Reputation

• Portland State is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.波特兰州立大学位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 1201-1400 区间，并在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 801-1000 区间。
• The university is ranked 1,338th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities table, a position driven by its citation record rather than by reputation surveys.该校在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单中排名第 1,338 位，这一位次更多由引用记录而非声誉调查推动。
• It is absent from the main table of the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities, which selects on Nobel-level awards and highly cited research.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜以诺奖级奖项与高被引研究为遴选依据。
• OpenAlex indexes 43,836 works and 1,444,522 citations for the university, a research volume far larger than its ranking position would suggest.OpenAlex 收录该校 43,836 篇成果与 1,444,522 次引用，其科研体量远超排名位次所显示的水平，这与它长期承担大量都市政策与应用研究的角色相符。
• Washington Monthly placed PSU 124th among 438 national universities in 2024, a table that measures social mobility, research and public service rather than selectivity.2024 年《华盛顿月刊》把该校列为全美 438 所国立大学中的第 124 位，该榜衡量社会流动性、科研与公共服务，而非录取难度。
• U.S. News ranks its graduate urban and regional planning programme 14th in the nation, and Planetizen places the Toulan School among the top 25 planning programmes.《美国新闻与世界报道》把该校的城市与区域规划研究生项目列为全美第 14，Planetizen 则把图兰学院列入全美前 25 个规划项目。
• The School of Social Work and the rehabilitation counselling programme are ranked 33rd and 23rd nationally, and the College of Urban and Public Affairs sits 46th among graduate public affairs schools.社会工作学院与康复咨询项目分别位列全美第 33 与第 23，城市与公共事务学院在研究生公共事务院校中排第 46。
• PSU holds no Nobel laureates, and its standing rests on urban policy, social work, sustainability and its role as Oregon's metropolitan research university.该校没有诺贝尔奖得主，其声望建立在城市政策、社会工作、可持续性以及作为俄勒冈都市研究型大学的角色之上。
• The university's R2 Carnegie classification and its 2025 designation as Oregon's Urban Research University together define its research identity more precisely than any single ranking.该校的 R2 卡内基分类与 2025 年获评“俄勒冈城市研究型大学”这两项认定，比任何单一排名都更准确地界定了它的科研身份。

Student life

• Portland State has no formal motto, and its identity is carried by the Viking mascot, the green and white colours and the slogan that it is a university in and of the city.波特兰州立大学没有正式校训，其身份由维京人吉祥物、绿白校色以及“属于城市、植根城市”的口号来承载。
• The student body is older than at most American universities, with an average undergraduate age of 26 in 2010-11 and a large share of part-time and transfer students.该校学生年龄普遍高于美国多数大学，2010-11 学年本科生平均年龄为 26 岁，非全日制与转学生占比很高，许多课程因此安排在晚间开设。
• The Associated Students of Portland State University, known as ASPSU, includes a president, a vice president, a 25-member student senate, a fee committee and a judicial board.波特兰州立大学学生联合会（ASPSU）设主席、副主席、由 25 人组成的学生参议院、学费委员会与司法委员会。
• The Portland State Vanguard has been the student newspaper since 1946, and KPSU radio and PSU TV add broadcast outlets run by students.《波特兰州立先锋报》自 1946 年起作为学生报纸发行，KPSU 电台与 PSU 电视台则提供由学生运营的广播渠道。
• The Portland Review, a literary magazine of poetry, fiction and art, has been published since 1956, and the university's student publications were consolidated into The Pacific Sentinel in 2016.文学杂志《波特兰评论》自 1956 年起刊行诗歌、小说与艺术作品，学校的学生刊物则在 2016 年整合为《太平洋哨兵》。
• PSU competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the Big Sky Conference, with American football in the FCS subdivision and home games at Hillsboro Stadium and the Viking Pavilion.该校以大天空联盟成员身份参加 NCAA 一级联赛，橄榄球属 FCS 分区，主场分别设在希尔斯伯勒体育场与维京体育馆。
• Before moving to Division I the Vikings won national Division II championships in women's volleyball and wrestling, and the mascot is Victor E. Viking.在升入一级联赛之前，维京人队曾在女子排球与摔跤项目上夺得二级联赛全国冠军，吉祥物名为“维克多·维京”。
• Students run 120 clubs through the Student Activities and Leadership Program, from tango and fencing to medieval re-enactment and a brewers' club, alongside 30 club sports.学生通过学生活动与领导力项目运营 120 个社团，从探戈、击剑到中世纪复原与酿酒社，另有 30 个俱乐部体育队伍。
• Several fraternities and sororities operate on and around the campus and are represented by a student-run body called Greek Life, which coordinates recruitment and community service.若干兄弟会与姐妹会在校园内外活动，由名为“希腊生活”的学生组织代表，负责统筹招募与社区服务。
• Because the campus sits in the city centre, student life merges with Portland's food carts, bookshops, transit and the South Park Blocks, and few students live in a self-contained campus bubble.由于校园位于市中心，学生生活与波特兰的餐车、书店、公共交通及南公园街区融为一体，很少有学生生活在自成一体的校园气泡中。
• The university's sustainability culture, reinforced by a 25 million dollar challenge grant from the Miller Foundation in 2008, shapes student projects in cycling, recycling and green building.该校的可持续文化因 2008 年米勒基金会 2,500 万美元配捐而加强，并塑造了学生在骑行、回收与绿色建筑方面的项目。

Notable people

• Stephen E. Epler founded the Vanport Extension Center in 1946, served as its director until 1952 and lived to see the institution become a university.斯蒂芬·E·埃普勒 1946 年创办范波特进修中心并任负责人至 1952 年，生前看到这所机构升格为大学。
• Lois Hennessy, a student in the first cohorts and the mother of the poet Gary Snyder, wrote the Christian Science Monitor account that gave the college its nickname.洛伊斯·亨尼西（Lois Hennessy）是最早几批学生之一、诗人加里·斯奈德的母亲，她在《基督教科学箴言报》上的报道为学院赢得了那个绰号。
• Gregory B. Wolfe, president from 1968 to 1974, led the transition to university status and was the administrator who called the campus architecture Stalinist cubism.格雷戈里·B·沃尔夫 1968 至 1974 年任校长，主导了升格为大学的过渡，也是把校园建筑称为“斯大林式立体主义”的那位管理者。
• Ann Cudd, a philosopher of economics and social justice, became president in 2023 after serving as provost of the University of Pittsburgh.研究经济学哲学与社会正义的哲学家安·卡德（Ann Cudd）在担任匹兹堡大学教务长之后，于 2023 年出任该校校长。
• Barbara Roberts, governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995 and the state's first woman in that office, studied at Portland State before entering politics.芭芭拉·罗伯茨（Barbara Roberts）1991 至 1995 年任俄勒冈州州长，是该州首位女性州长，进入政坛前曾在波特兰州立大学就读。
• Neil Lomax, who played quarterback at PSU, went on to a decade with the St. Louis and Phoenix Cardinals and set passing records in the National Football League.尼尔·洛马克斯（Neil Lomax）在波特兰州立大学担任四分卫，后效力圣路易斯与菲尼克斯红雀队长达十年，并在美国国家橄榄球联盟创下传球纪录。
• Freeman Williams, the university's all-time leading basketball scorer, was drafted by the Boston Celtics and played in the National Basketball Association from 1978.弗里曼·威廉姆斯（Freeman Williams）是该校篮球历史得分王，被波士顿凯尔特人队选中，1978 年起征战美国职业篮球联赛。
• Clint Didier, a tight end who won two Super Bowls with the Washington Redskins, played his college football at Portland State before turning professional.克林特·迪迪埃（Clint Didier）是随华盛顿红皮队两夺超级碗的近端锋，进入职业联盟前在波特兰州立大学打球。
• Julius Thomas, a Pro Bowl tight end for the Denver Broncos and Jacksonville Jaguars, played basketball and football at PSU before his NFL career.朱利叶斯·托马斯（Julius Thomas）是丹佛野马与杰克逊维尔美洲虎队的职业碗近端锋，进入国家橄榄球联盟前在该校兼打篮球与橄榄球。
• Fariborz Maseeh, an alumnus, investor and founder of the Massiah Foundation, gave the gift that renamed the engineering and computer science college in 2004.法里博尔兹·马西是该校校友、投资人与马西亚基金会创办人，他的捐赠使工程与计算机科学学院于 2004 年以他命名。