2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in Oregon

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Oregon” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 30,075 people earned their degree in biological and physical science, making the major the 38th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biological and physical science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,402 and had an average of $15,005 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 292 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,512 and $25,406 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,451 and $21,646 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Oregon” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biological and physical science. That schools that top this list have a program in biological and physical science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Oregon”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in Oregon

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Linn-Benton Community College
Albany, Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Linn-Benton Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Oregon. This small school is located in Albany, Oregon, and it awarded 1 associates’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Linn-Benton Community College Biological & Physical Science Report

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Southwestern Oregon Community College
Coos Bay, Oregon

#16 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Oregon Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in Oregon. SWOCC is located in Coos Bay, Oregon and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s biological science degrees to qualified students.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Biological & Physical Science at Southwestern Oregon Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science

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.