2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 3rd of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 559,661 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,786 and had an average of $16,538 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 8,448 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,817 and $14,887 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 286 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in liberal arts / sciences and humanities. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality liberal arts / sciences and humanities programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the liberal arts / sciences and humanities program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in Oregon (With Aid)

#1

Portland State University

Portland, Oregon

#2 in overall quality

$13,040 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Portland State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid. Portland State University is a large school located in Portland, Oregon that handed out 186 bachelors’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Portland State University, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Portland State University is $13,040 for oregon bachelor’s degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students with aid.

Full Portland State University Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Report

#2

Eastern Oregon University

La Grande, Oregon

#3 in overall quality

$14,300 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Oregon University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid list. EOU is a small school located in La Grande, Oregon that handed out 12 bachelors’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

EOU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” list. It costs about $14,300 for oregon bachelor’s degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students with aid per year to attend EOU.

Full Eastern Oregon University Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Report

#3

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$20,016 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Corvallis, Oregon, this large public school handed out 63 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities students in 2019-2020.

Oregon State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Oregon State University is $20,016 for oregon bachelor’s degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at Oregon State

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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

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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