The grounds is situated in the University Park neighborhood close St. Johns, on a feign disregarding the Willamette River. With a school of expressions and sciences; a doctoral level college; and schools of business, training, building, and nursing, it is the main thorough Catholic University in Oregon. It is the biggest partnership in North Portland and has a yearly financial effect on Portland of some $190 million. More than 15,000 graduated class live in the Portland metropolitan territory.
This is the human sciences center of the college. The school of expressions and sciences has seventeen divisions: science, science, correspondence ponders, english, ecological science, worldwide dialects and societies, history, arithmetic, performing and expressive arts, logic, material science, political science, brain science, social and behavioral sciences, social work, human science, and philosophy.
A few of the offices offer graduate projects notwithstanding their undergrad majors, and these projects double answer to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Dean of the Graduate School. The Communication Studies office offers a M.A. in Communication and a M.S. in Management Communication. The Performing and Fine Arts division offers the M.F.A. in Directing. This project is certify by the National Association of Schools of Theater. The Theology office offers a three-year Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry. The M.A.P.M. project was begun in 2001 as a team with Gonzag University, yet in 201 the organization finished and the University of Portland keeps on offering the system autonomously.
The school is experiencing development and redesigns for both its grounds lodging offices, scholarly structures, and amusement offices. For lodging, another living arrangement lobby was finished for the 2008-2009 school year. The college additionally revamped the current eating office known as The Commons, which was renamed the Bauccio Commons to pay tribute to former student Fedele Bauccio who established the Bon Appetit Management Company which gives sustenance administrations to the grounds.
In scholastics, the Engineering Building was redesigned utilizing a $15 million present for its extension and change from Donald and Darlene Shiley. Furthermore, the college has totally redesigned the Clark Library. Somewhere else, a ringer tower found adjoining the Christ the Teacher Chapel was finished in September 2008. At 200 feet, it is the tallest structure on grounds, and in addition in North Portland, a title that Mehling Hall held already.
In games and amusement, in May 2015, the college started development on the Beauchamp Recreation and Wellness Center, named after the college's nineteenth president, Rev. E. William Beauchamp. It will highlight best in class quality and cardio preparing offices, 4 gyms, a suspended track, a bicycle shop, classrooms, and an outside interests office. It is planned to be finished by january 2016. Also, in June 2015, remodels started on Joe Etzel Baseball field to incorporate enhanced lighting, fencing, and fake turf.