2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental Engineering is the 166th most popular major in the country with 2,802 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, environmental engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,600 and had an average of $23,573 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 38 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in environmental engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality environmental engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the environmental engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Oregon

#1

Portland State University

Portland, Oregon

#2 in overall quality

$11,198 Average Net Price

$61,064 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Portland State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Portland, Oregon, this large public school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s environmental engineering students in 2019-2020.

Portland State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” list. The estimated yearly cost for Portland State University is $11,198 for Oregon Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Portland State University Environmental Engineering Report

#2

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$14,157 Average Net Price

$47,260 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Corvallis, Oregon, this large public school handed out 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s environmental engineering 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 Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Oregon State University is $14,157 for oregon bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Oregon State Environmental Engineering Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering (Income $0-$30k)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia Goosic.

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