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Southern Oregon University

Ashland, OR

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Why This Rating?
Undergraduate Enrollment Institution Categories Institution Type Student to Faculty Ratio Tuition, In-State/ Out-of-State Student Loan Default Rate 4-Year Grad Rate

How Colleges Spend Money

The graph below shows the Administrative Cost Per Student at Southern Oregon University. This is a measure of expenditures per student for day-today executive operations of the institution, not including student services or academic management.

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FIRE Speech Rating

Southern Oregon University earns a Yellow speech code rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

A yellow light institution maintains policies that could be interpreted to suppress protected speech or policies that, while clearly restricting freedom of speech, restrict relatively narrow categories of speech.

FIRE evaluates colleges and universities' "speech codes," or written free speech policies, for how well they protect students' freedom of speech. ACTA believes an institution's commitment to free expression correlates with its commitment to academic excellence, facilitated through the free exchange of ideas.

"Southern Oregon University is a regionally-engaged learning community committed to being the educational provider of choice for learners throughout their lives. We inspire curiosity and creativity, compel critical thinking, foster discovery, and cultivate bold ideas and actions. We achieve student success, professional preparation, and civic engagement through service excellence, evolving technologies, and innovative curriculum. We foster access, equity, inclusion and diversity in thought and practice. We prepare our learners to be responsible, engaged citizens in our democracy. We promote economic vitality, sustainability, cultural enrichment, and social well-being in our region, the state, the nation, and the world." [Source]

Curriculum last evaluated: 10/22/2025

2021-22 enrollment and tuition data, and four-year graduation rates for first-time, full-time freshmen who enrolled in Fall 2012, are derived from the National Center for Education Statistics’ College Navigator.