What is OHSU?
Oregon Health & Science University is a nationally prominent research university and Oregon’s only public academic health center. It educates health professionals and scientists and provides leading-edge patient care, community service and biomedical research.
Quick Facts
Healing
- Total patient visits — 876,553
- Total patients — 251,033 (includes medical and dental clinics)
- Licensed Beds: 572
- Staffed beds: 544 (145 for pediatrics)
Teaching
- Students in OHSU degree programs — 2,849
- Students in joint programs with other universities — 454
- Interns, residents and postgraduates — 1,102
- Faculty — 2,289
- Alumni — 34,721
Discovery
- Grants/awards — $359 million
- Funding coming from outside Oregon — 95%
- Principal investigators — 1,158
- Invention disclosures — 117
- New patents issued —33
Community service
- Care for the underserved — $115.2 million
- Total community benefit —$328.6 million
Economics and Funding
- Employees — 13,984
- Annual operating budget (2012) — $2.06 billion
- Amount from State General Fund — 1.71%
- Percentage of total budget from State General Fund — 1.71%
- Economic impact — $3.8 billion and 35,000 jobs (according to a study done by EcoNorthwest in 2010, using 2007 data)
All data is fiscal year 2012 unless otherwise noted.

