The University of Portland (UP) is a private Catholic university located in Portland, Oregon. It is affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross and the sister school of the University of Notre Dame. Founded in 1901, UP has a student population of about 3,600 students. He is best known for its women's soccer program, which won the 2002 and 2005 NCAA Championships Division I women's soccer. UP is ranked 10th in the west to the universities, the control by U.S. News & World Report. The campus is located in the Park University District, near St. Johns, on a bluff overlooking the Willamette River. It is the only university in Oregon to offer a place, a college of arts and sciences, a graduate school and schools of business, education, engineering and nursing. The first facility located in Portland was Waud's Bluff University, a Methodist Episcopal Church founded university established in 1891. It operated until about 1898.The following year, the College of Puget Sound, a new university founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church, was part of the University of Portland. According to the University of Portland tradition, Archbishop Alexander Christie, the head of the Archdiocese of
