2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering is the 78th most popular major in the country with 11,925 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,152 and had an average of $20,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 46 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,900 and $25,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Oregon

#1

Oregon Institute of Technology

Klamath Falls, Oregon

$23,379 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

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 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k. Oregon Institute of Technology is a medium-sized school located in Klamath Falls, Oregon that handed out 2 masters’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at OIT, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at OIT are $23,379.

Read full report on General Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology

#2

University of Portland

Portland, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$23,868 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Portland landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Portland, Oregon, and it awarded 3 masters’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Portland did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Oregon” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Portland are $23,868, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Engineering at University of Portland

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k)

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.

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