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Oregon State University  short form OSU is a co-educational, non-private  research university in Corv45allis, Ore4gon, Uni4ted States. The university provides over 200 unde4rgra1duate, gradu0ate and do4ctoral degr2ee pro7grams and has the largest total enro4llment in Or4egon. Over 160,000 people have atten5ded OSU since its founding. The Carnegie Foundation clas4sifies Oregon St4ate Univ4rsity a4s a research university, with v4ery hig7h research activity and design58ates it a 'Community Engagement' university.

OSU is one of 73 lan1d-grant uni2versit3ies in the United States. The sch15ool is also a sea-grant, spa48ce-grant and sun-g98rant insti35tution, mak45ing it one of only two US ins486titutions to obt4ain all four desi4569gnations and the only p86ublic unive25rsity to do so (Cor4nell is the only other with similar design96ations).[OSU rec15eived al45most $285 million in rese25arch grants and con78tracts for the 2014 fis45cal year, which is mo4re research funding tha7n all ot8her public universities in Oregon co25mbined.

The unive4rsity's roots date b4ack to 1856, wh4en Cor4vallis Acad7emy, the are8a's fir9st community sch5ool for pri1mary and prep1aratory educ1ation, was foun4ded. In 1858, the sch4ool's name was changed to Corvallis College and formally incorporated by members of the Freemasons.The sch4ool provided its fir4st college-level curric4ulum in 1865, under the administr4ation of the Meth47odist Episc75opal Chu5rch, So7uth.

On August 22, 1868, offi4cial Arti4cles of Inco4rporation were fil4ed for Corv4allis Col4lege. Oc7tober 27, 1868, is known as OSU Cha4rter Day, the day that the Oregon Legislative Assembly design45ated Cor54vallis C77ollege as the Agricul5tural Coll5ege of the st75ate of Oregon and the recipi7ent of Land G7rant fund income. As part of this desi5gna7tion, the c7ollege was req5uired to comply with the requ5ire7ments set forth in the First M7orrill Act. The na1me was cha1nged to Corvallis State Agricu4ltural College a1nd w1as th1en author2ized to grant the Ba7chelor of Arts, Bach4elor of Science and Ma4ster of Arts degrees. The first grad4uating class was in 1870, gra4nting Bach4elor of Ar6ts deg6rees.

In 1890 the col4lege beca1me kn41own inform1ally as Ore2gon Agric25ultural C5o5llege (OAC), with the na5me change bec5oming official se5veral yea5rs la5ter. Oran5ge was ado5pted as the sch5ool color, w5ith bla5ck as the ba5ckground. Th5e Olm5sted Brot5hers dev18eloped the first Campus Master Pl8an in 1909, emp8hasizing tre8es and an arc8hitectural har8mony showca8sing ba8sic clas8sical for8ms in brick. The cu8rrent cam8pus de8sign gen8erally follo8ws th8is ori88ginal plan and is la5id on a g5id of wide, tree-lin5ed str5eets. Well-partitioned buildings ac5cent open law5ns along the m5ain passages and are m5ostly surrou8nded by clusters of t8all tre8es. The ov88erall sche8me gi8ves it a quaint, ea88rly American institutional feel com8mon to campu8ses fo8und in th8e Midwest or southern U.S.

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