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Pacific University, founded in 1849, is a church-affiliated university. Programs are offered in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Its 55-acre campus is located in Forest Grove, 25 miles west of Portland.

Walla Walla, founded in 1892, is a church-affiliated college. Its 77-acre campus is located in College Place, southwest of Spokane.

Texas A&M at College Station, founded in 1876, is a public, comprehensive university. It is one of the few institutions holding triple federal designations as a land-, sea- and space-grant university. It offers extraordinary, high-quality academic programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels in over 100 fields. Its students have unique opportunities to develop leadership skills through its optional Corps of Cadets and 700 other organizations. Texas A&M is the nation's only university to rank among the top ten in four key categories: student body size (4th), enrollment of National Merit Scholars (8th), research expenditures (9th) and endowment (10th). Programs are offered through the Colleges of Agriculture, Architecture, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Geosciences, Liberal Arts, Medicine, Science and Veterinary Medicine. Its 5,200-acre campus is located in College Station, 90 miles northwest of Houston.

Cairn University, formerly Philadelphia Biblical University, is a private institution with religious orientation founded in 1913. Its 105-acre wooded campus is located in Langhorne, northeast of Philadelphia.

Patten University, founded in 1944, is a private, church-affiliated, liberal arts college. Its five-acre campus is located in a residential section of Oakland.

New Mexico Highlands is a public university. Founded in 1898, it gained university status in 1941. Its 175-acre campus is located in the center of Las Vegas, 70 miles east of Santa Fe.

The University of Portland, founded in 1901, is a private, church-affiliated institution. Programs are offered through the College of Arts and Sciences; and the Schools of Business Administration, Education, Engineering, and Nursing. Its 125-acre is located four miles from downtown Portland.

Pittsburg State, founded in 1903, is a public, comprehensive university. Programs are offered through the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Technology and Applied Science, the School of Education, and the Gladys A. Kelce School of Business and Economics. Its 233-acre campus is located in Pittsburg, south of Kansas City.

The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public, comprehensive institution. It is the premier research institution north of Berkeley, California and west of Minnesota. UW has earned an international reputation for its research in such fields as Asian languages and literature, cell biology, computer science, forestry, international studies, nursing and physics. Programs are offered through the Colleges of Architecture and Urban Planning, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Forest Resources; and the Schools of Business Administration, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health and Community Medicine, and Social Work. The 703-acre campus, graced by Collegiate Gothic architecture, meandering paths and immaculately landscaped grounds, is one of the most beautiful in the U.S. yet is located in a residential section of Seattle five miles from downtown. A UW education offers a daily education in Pacific Rim politics, economics and culture. Washington's state economy is more dependent on trade than that of any other state in the U.S., and it shows in the local food, local products and the courses taught at UW. Undergraduates are encouraged to take full advantage of UW's superb faculty, libraries (ranked among the top 15 in the U.S.), computing resources, labs, scientific equipment and research projects. The UW student population reflects the ethnicity of the state: three in ten undergraduates are students of color, of which two-thirds are Asian-American. The undergraduate population is composed of 85% Washington residents, with most of the nonresident population hailing from the Far West.