2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Surveying Technology/Surveying in the Far Western US Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Surveying Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Surveying Technology/Surveying is the 602nd most popular major in the country with 744 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 102 surveying technology/surveying graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 surveying technology/surveying graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Surveying Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in surveying technology/surveying. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their surveying technology/surveying program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Surveying Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree surveying students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Surveying Technology/Surveying in the Far Western US Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Surveying Major in the Far Western US Region list. OIT is located in Klamath Falls, Oregon and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s surveying degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Surveying Technology/Surveying at Oregon Institute of Technology
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Surveying Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Great Basin College landed the #2 spot on the list. Great Basin College is a public institution located in Elko, Nevada. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.
Full Great Basin College Surveying Technology/Surveying Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Surveying Major in the Far Western US Region. University of Alaska Anchorage is a public institution located in Anchorage, Alaska. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Alaska Anchorage Surveying Technology/Surveying Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend California State University - Fresno. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Surveying Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Fresno, California, this large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s surveying students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Fresno State Surveying Technology/Surveying 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
- *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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