2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Information Science in Oregon

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Information Science is the 47th most popular major in the country with 18,325 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Oregon, there were 9 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,095 and $25,983 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general information science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular general information science programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Information Science in Oregon

1

Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon

#7 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Oregon University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s. Located in Monmouth, Oregon, this small public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s information science students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Information Science at Western Oregon State College

2

George Fox University
Newberg, Oregon

#8 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Fox University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s list. GFU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Newberg, Oregon. It awarded 2 bachelors’s information science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Information Science at George Fox University

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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