2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 20,721 people earned their degree in general public health, making the major the 42nd most popular in the United States.

Across Oregon, there were 297 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 185 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general public health. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general public health programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general public health program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Public Health in Oregon

#1

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$20,016 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oregon State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon. Corvallis, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general public health degrees to 162 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Oregon State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Oregon State is $20,016 for Oregon Bachelor’s Degree General Public Health students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.

Read more about General Public Health at Oregon State

#2

Pacific University

Forest Grove, Oregon

#2 in overall quality

$29,498 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Pacific University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Forest Grove, Oregon, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 23 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general public health students in 2019-2020.

Pacific also made our “Best General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Pacific is $29,498 for Oregon Bachelor’s Degree General Public Health students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%.

Read more about General Public Health at Pacific

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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.

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