Peer Institutions

Arizona State University – West (Glendale, AZ)

California State University – Channel Islands (Camarillo, CA)

Colorado Mesa University (Grand Junction, CO)

Eastern Oregon University (La Grande, OR)

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (East Stroudsburg, PA)

Emporia State University (Emporia, KS)

Northwest Missouri State University (Maryville, MO)

Shippensburg University (Shippensburg, PA)

Southern Oregon University (Ashland, OR)

University of Washington – Tacoma (Tacoma, WA)

WOU updated its list of Peer Institutions in the 2020-21 Academic Year. We plan to update our list of peers following the next Carnegie Classification update in 2024 (https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/).

NOTE: ASU-West no longer reports data to IPEDS as an independent institution.

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Western Oregon University’s Land Acknowledgement
Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR is located within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.

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