2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forest Engineering

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 “Most Well Attended Forest Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s” 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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 forest engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Forest Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in forest engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular forest engineering programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Forest Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Forest Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forest Engineering

1

Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

Top 15% overall quality in United States

$50,115 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Forest Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s list. Corvallis, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s forest engineering degrees to 41 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Read more about Forest Engineering at Oregon State

2

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

Top 5% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Forest Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s forest engineering students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Read full report on Forest Engineering at UW Seattle

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

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