2022 Best Value Forest Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Forest Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 53 people earned their degree in forest engineering, making the major the 1066th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 forest engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the forest engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Best Value Forest Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Forest Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree forest engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forest Engineering

#1

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$20,016 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oregon State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Forest Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s. Oregon State University is a public institution located in Corvallis, Oregon. The school has a large population, and it awarded 53 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Oregon State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Forest Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $20,016 for bachelor’s degree forest engineering students per year to attend Oregon State University.

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%.

Read full report on Forest Engineering at Oregon State

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dresvyannikov Alexander.

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