2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Oregon

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Engineering is the 78th most popular major in the country with 11,925 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,152 and had an average of $20,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 46 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,900 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general 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 general engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Oregon

#1

George Fox University

Newberg, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$30,378 Average Net Price

$61,516 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Fox University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon. GFU is located in Newberg, Oregon and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

GFU also made our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $30,378 for Oregon Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students per year to attend George Fox University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.

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