The best college in Oregon apparently isn’t the one with the acclaimed education and journalism programs in Eugene or the one known for strong engineering and forestry programs in Corvallis. It evidently is not the one on the Park Blocks in downtown Portland nor the one on The Bluff in North Portland.
No, according to new rankings from Time magazine, the best college in Oregon is a small liberal arts school in McMinnville — Linfield University.
In Time’s inaugural list of America’s Best Colleges of 2026–27, Linfield landed atop the Oregon schools at No. 136 nationally, beating out the bigger universities across the state…