2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon

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In 2020-2021, 11,796 people earned their degree in general engineering, making the major the 79th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,873 and had an average of $20,557 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 49 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,179 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,963 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general engineering.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Oregon

1

Oregon Institute of Technology
Klamath Falls, Oregon

#9 overall quality in Oregon

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Oregon Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. OIT is a small public school situated in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It awarded 13 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology

2

University of Portland
Portland, Oregon

#5 overall quality in Oregon

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Portland landed the #2 spot on the list. Portland, Oregon is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, 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 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Portland General Engineering Report

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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

• *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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