2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region
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Ranked Colleges
43
Degrees Awarded
$50,115
Avg Salary
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Forest Engineering is the 354th most popular major in the country with 43 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , forest engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $50,115 and had an average of $19,196 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 43 forest engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,115 and $19,196 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 forest engineering 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 Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in forest engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in forest engineering.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree forest engineering students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forest Engineering in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oregon State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Corvallis, Oregon, this large public school handed out 43 degrees to qualified bachelors’s forest engineering students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 Oregon State University Forest Engineering Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forest Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s forest engineering students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. 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%.
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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%.
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- *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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