2022 Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Information Science is the 56th most popular major in the country with 18,368 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $58,848 and had an average of $32,600 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 29 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent information science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the information science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The is school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon”.

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Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in Oregon

#1

Western Oregon University

Monmouth, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$19,315 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Oregon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Monmouth, Oregon, this small public school handed out 21 degrees to qualified bachelors’s IS students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Western Oregon State College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. It costs about $19,315 for Oregon Bachelor’s Degree IS students per year to attend Western Oregon University.

Full Western Oregon University Information Science Report

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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