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2022 Best Value Forest Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s

1 Ranked Colleges
53 Degrees Awarded
$20,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Forest Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Forest Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Forest Engineering is the 343rd most popular major in the country with 53 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, forest engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $48,800 and had an average of $22,000 in loans still to pay off.

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.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality forest engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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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The forest engineering 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 Forest Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s”.

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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

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. Corvallis, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s forest engineering degrees to 53 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree forest engineering students list, Oregon State has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Forest Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Oregon State is $20,016 for bachelor’s degree forest engineering students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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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