2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Forestry is the 189th most popular major in the country with 2,233 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, forestry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,829 and had an average of $21,444 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 373 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,540 and $22,360 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in forestry. That schools that top this list have a program in forestry in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree forestry students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry in the Far Western US Region

1

Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

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 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region. Oregon State University is a public institution located in Corvallis, Oregon. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, 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 85%.

Read full report on Forestry at Oregon State University

2

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forestry Major in the Far Western US Region. This large school is located in Seattle, Washington, and it awarded 16 doctorate’s forestry degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Forestry at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry

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.

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