by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 85,188 people earned their degree in engineering technologies, making the major the 20th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,350 and had an average of $21,560 in loans still to pay off.
Across Oregon, there were 651 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,463 and $28,583 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 89 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,095 and $25,983 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering technologies. To top this list, a school must have a successful engineering technologies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for oregon bachelor’s degree engineering tech students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s list. Klamath Falls, Oregon is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to 89 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Portland landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Portland is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Portland, Oregon. It awarded 0 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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