植物与植物病理学系提供研究生课程，导致获得硕士学位和博士学位。这些学位为学生准备了各种未来的就业机会。我们的毕业生被当地，州，国家或国际雇主在公共和私营部门雇用。俄勒冈州立大学农业科学学院植物学与植物病理学系提供了一个特殊的环境，可以在该环境中进行植物生物学的本科或研究生培训。我们是少数维护和促进植物病理学与植物学之间的正式联系的大学之一。我们的部门结构为跨学科研究和培训提供了便利，使学生有可能解决植物生物学的基本问题，并将这些知识应用于与天然或商业植物资源有关的实际问题。
The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology offers graduate programs leading to M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees that prepare students for a variety of future employment opportunities. Our graduates are employed in both the public and private sector by local, state, national or international employers. Professional opportunities exist in numerous fields including plant disease, research and management, plant physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, plant genetics, marine and aquatic botany, plant ecology, botanical taxonomy, structure, evolution, biogeography, plant product monitoring, program administration, sales. Students with majors in any one area can incorporate into their programs minors in other areas within the department or in other departments in the Colleges of Science, Agricultural Sciences, and Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. Plant pathology includes studies in the areas of bacteriology, nematology, virology, forest pathology, epidemiology of plant diseases, the physiology of parasitism, and the molecular and biochemical basis of plant host-pathogen interactions.