2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Paper Science & Engineering

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 Paper Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Paper Science & Engineering is the 1094th most popular major in the country with 45 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 paper science and engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in paper science and engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great paper science and engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the paper science and engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Paper Science & Engineering

#1

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan

#2 in overall quality

$19,433 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Michigan University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s paper engineering degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

WMU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Paper Science & Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for WMU is $19,433 for bachelor’s degree paper engineering students.

Read more about Paper Science & Engineering at Western Michigan University

#2

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Syracuse, New York

#1 in overall quality

$19,737 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s list. ESF is a small public school situated in Syracuse, New York. It awarded 7 bachelors’s paper engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

ESF also took the #1 spot in our “Best Paper Science & Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $19,737 for Bachelor’s Degree Paper Engineering students per year to attend ESF.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Paper Science & Engineering at ESF

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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