2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering in the Far Western US Region

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 Bioengineering Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering is the 63rd most popular major in the country with 12,258 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 1,985 bioengineering and biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 bioengineering and biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great bioengineering and biomedical engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the bioengineering and biomedical engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Bioengineering Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree bioengineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering in the Far Western US Region

#1

Portland Community College

Portland, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$8,914 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Bioengineering Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Portland Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Portland, Oregon, and it awarded 19 associates’s bioengineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Portland Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Portland Community College is $8,914 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Bioengineering students.

Read more about Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering at Portland Community College

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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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