We have conducted a study of star formation in the outer Galaxy from 65degr$< l <$265degr~in the region observed by the GLIMPSE360 program. This {it Spitzer} warm mission program mapped the plane of the outer Milky Way with IRAC at 3.6 and 4.5~$mu$m. We combine the IRAC, {it WISE}, and 2MASS catalogs and our previous results from another outer Galaxy survey and identify a total of 47,338 Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) across the field spanning $>$180degr in Galactic longitude. Using the $DBSCAN$ method on the combined catalog, we identify 618 clusters or aggregations of YSOs having 5 or more members. We identify 10,476 Class I, 29,604 Class II, and 7,325 anemic Class II/Class III YSOs. The ratio of YSOs identified as members of clusters was 25,528/47,338, or 54%. We found 100 of the clusters identified have previously measured distances in the {it WISE} ion{H}{2} survey. We used these distances in our spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting of the YSOs in these clusters, of which 96 had YSOs with $<3sigma$ fits. We used the derived masses from the SED model fits to estimate the initial mass function (IMF) in the inner and outer Galaxy clusters: dividing the clusters by Galactocentric distances, the slopes were $Gamma = 1.87 pm 0.31$ above 3~M$_{odot}$ for $R_{Gal} < 11.5$~kpc and $Gamma = 1.15 pm 0.24$ above 3~M$_{odot}$ for $R_{Gal} > 11.5$~kpc. The slope of the combined IMF was found to be $Gamma = 1.92 pm 0.42$ above 3~M$_{odot}$. These values are consistent with each other within the uncertainties, and with literature values in the inner Galaxy high-mass star formation regions. The slopes are likely also consistent with a universal Salpeter IMF.
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