2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forest Engineering in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 41 people earned their degree in forest engineering, making the major the 354th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, forest engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $50,115 and had an average of $26,000 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 41 forest engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,115 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 forest engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in forest engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in forest engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forest Engineering in the Far Western US Region

1

Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

Top 20% overall quality in Far Western US

$50,115 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oregon State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oregon State is a public institution located in Corvallis, Oregon. The school has a large population, and it awarded 41 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Oregon State University Forest Engineering Report

2

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s forest engineering students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Forest Engineering at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forest Engineering

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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