Southern Oregon University

Academics

• Campus Catalog
• Priority: According to class standing
• Syllabus Request for Course Pre-Approval: Contact Host Coordinator for assistance

Notable Academic Programs

• Outdoor Adventure Leadership - As part of SOU's OAL program, students will live in and experience a community that embraces the tourism and outdoor industries. Surrounded by mountains, the Siskiyou-Cascade National Monument, the Rogue and Klamath Rivers, Mt. Shasta and Crater Lake National Park, Ashland supports a plethora of outdoor activities, from skiing and whitewater kayaking, to mountain biking and mountaineering. SOU was also recently recognized by Backpacker Magazine as the sixth best Hiking College in America. The region supports a host of rafting companies, guide services, outdoor schools, mountain bike shops, the United Bicycle Institute, and other interests that serve and support the thriving outdoor industry.
• Emerging Media & Digital Arts - The EMDA major combines interdisciplinary research and activity with a range of technical skills for the creation and evaluation of digital media. In addition to foundational courses in digital image, video, and audio, EMDA students may take classes like The Art of Data, Remix Culture, Robotic Art, and Digital 3D Modeling Methods.

Unique Academic Programs

• Wine Business - Wine Business at SOU provides students the opportunity to learn many aspects of the wine trade from the history, geography, and environmental requirements to grow grapes, to the processes to make, bottle, and sell wine, to sensory evaluation techniques and communication about wine. Students will apply business principles from sales and marketing to effectively market and promote wine, along with learning management, accounting, computer applications, and hospitality and tourism factors that are important for successful wine businesses. SOU sits in the Rogue Valley, a prolific wine region that is the warmest and driest of Oregon's wine-producing regions. Southern Oregon's terroir creates distinctive viogniers, tempranillos, and pinot noirs.
• Transgender Studies - Within the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's studies major, the Transgender Studies certificate (one of the first in the country) offers courses like Thinking Queerly, Decolonizing Transgender, and Trans History, Trans Futures.

Undergraduate Majors Open to NSE Students

Conditions

• No students accepted from NSE members within my own state
• 2.5 GPA

• Full-year exchange Preferred
• Single term exchange Accepted

• Available

• TOEFL: must have a score of 520.00 paper, 190.00 computer or 68.00 Internet
• IELTS: must have a score of 5.50

• Not available

• Will not accept

• Will accept Home Payment Pay

Tuition / Finances

• Campus Budget
• Fees are subject to change without notice.
• Two semesters = one academic year
• Three quarters = one academic year

• Estimated cost: $3639.
• Expect 5-15% increase for the subsequent academic year.
• Figures are based on 15 hours. Actual costs may be greater or less depending upon your actual enrollment.
• Figures do not include costs you will incur for course specific enrollment (e.g., laboratory courses, student teaching, studio art)
• See below for credit hour restrictions and/or miscellaneous fees applicable to Host Payment students.

• No tuition/fees are paid to the host campus.
• Figures do not include costs you will incur for course specific enrollment (e.g., laboratory courses, student teaching, studio art)
• See below for credit hour restrictions and/or miscellaneous fees applicable to Home Payment students.

• Host Payment: 16 ($196 per additional hour)
• Home Payment: 16 ($196 per additional hour)

Financial Aid - Host Payment
For Host Payment U.S. students, aid is awarded by and disbursed from your host campus. Students apply for federally funded financial aid by using the FAFSA code of their host campus. Host campuses award aid to eligible incoming Plan A students on a first-come, first-served basis as long as funds are available. Ask your home campus NSE coordinator if your campus awards aid to their own outgoing students. If so, do not apply for aid from your host campus.

For eligible Host Payment applicants U.S. federal financial aid may be available in the following programs:

• Pell
• CWS
• Perkins
• SEOG
• Plus

Miscellaneous Fees - Per Quarter

Room / Meals

• On-Campus Housing
• 17% living on campus
• Double: $3500
• Per quarter unless otherwise noted

• Off-Campus Housing
• Approximate monthly cost: $1000
• Proximity to campus: 5
• Local Public Transportation Available to Campus

Meal Plans

• Campus Meal Plans
• Meal purchase is required for on campus living.

Resources

• Campus Homepage
• GLBTQIA+ Resources
• Learning Accessibility Resources
• Physical Accessibility Resources
• Multicultural Student Resources
• Veterans Affairs

Health

Requirements

• Health / accident insurance (encouraged)
• Immunization: MMR (measles, mumps, rubella)
• Immunization: Covid-19