2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Oregon

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General Engineering is the 96th most popular major in the country with 8,480 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Oregon, there were 37 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,093 and $47,545 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Oregon

1

Oregon Institute of Technology
Klamath Falls, Oregon

#9 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oregon Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon. OIT is a public institution located in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Oregon Institute of Technology General Engineering Report

2

University of Portland
Portland, Oregon

#5 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Portland. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Oregon. University of Portland is a private not-for-profit institution located in Portland, Oregon. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering at University of Portland

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.

Credits

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