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2022 Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
198 Degrees Awarded
$17,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Student Counseling is the 73rd most popular major in the country with 14,055 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, student counseling graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,174 and had an average of $42,631 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 198 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,333 and $57,599 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in student counseling. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality student counseling programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the student counseling program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for oregon student counseling students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Colleges for Student Counseling (Income $0-$30k) in Oregon

#1

Portland State University

Portland, Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Portland State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k. Portland State University is located in Portland, Oregon and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 44 ’s student counseling degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Portland State University, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Student Counseling Schools in Oregon” ranking. It costs about $11,198 for oregon student counseling students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Portland State University.

Read full report on Student Counseling at Portland State University

#2

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oregon State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k. Oregon State is located in Corvallis, Oregon and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 90 ’s student counseling degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Oregon State, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Student Counseling Schools in Oregon” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Oregon State University is $14,157 for Oregon Student Counseling students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Oregon State University Student Counseling Report

#3

Lewis & Clark College

Portland, Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lewis & Clark College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k. Lewis & Clark College is a small school located in Portland, Oregon that handed out 29 ’s student counseling degrees in 2019-2020.

Lewis and Clark College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Student Counseling Schools in Oregon” list. It costs about $18,913 for Oregon Student Counseling students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Lewis and Clark College.

The low student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Student Counseling at Lewis & Clark College

#4

Bushnell University

Eugene, Oregon
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bushnell University landed the #4 spot on the list. Bushnell University is located in Eugene, Oregon and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 18 ’s student counseling degrees to qualified students.

Bushnell University also made our “Best Student Counseling Schools in Oregon” list, coming in at #5. The estimated yearly cost for Bushnell University is $20,623 for Oregon Student Counseling students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Student Counseling at Bushnell University

#5

George Fox University

Newberg, Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Fox University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Student Counseling Schools in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Newberg, Oregon, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 17 degrees to qualified ’s student counseling students in 2019-2020.

GFU also took the #3 spot in our “Best Student Counseling Schools in Oregon” ranking. The yearly cost to attend GFU is $22,955 for oregon student counseling students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Student Counseling at George Fox University

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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