The University of Portland (UP) is a private Roman Catholic university located in Portland, Oregon. It is affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross and is the sister school of the University of Notre Dame. Founded in 1901, UP has a student body of about 3,200 students. It is most widely known for its women's soccer program, which won the 2002 and 2005 Division I NCAA Women's Soccer Championships. UP is ranked 5th in the west for Universities-Master's by U.S. News and World Report. The UP campus is located in the University Park neighborhood near St. Johns, on a bluff overlooking the Willamette River. It is the only school in Oregon to offer, at one location, a college of arts & sciences, a graduate school, and schools of business, education, engineering, and nursing.
