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2023 Best Value Computer Science Associate Degree Schools in Oregon

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

2 Schools Ranked
$10,508 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$22,029 Avg Student Debt*

It's not easy to decide which computer science program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Computer Science Associate Degree Schools in Oregon ranking is one of many tools that Computer Science Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Oregon to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for computer science students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Computer Science Associate Degree Schools in Oregon

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Portland Community College

Portland, Oregon
142 Total Awards
$9,670 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Portland Community College to be the best value school for computer science students who want to pursue a associate degree in Oregon. Located in Portland, Oregon, the large public school handed out 142 associate degree awards in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Portland Community College are $9,670 a year. By the time they get their associate degree, students from this school have racked up an average of $24,561 in student loans.

Some students may be able to take online classes at Portland Community College. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 94% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Portland Community College also took the #1 spot in our Best Computer Science Associate Degree Schools in Oregon rankings.

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#2

Lane Community College

Eugene, Oregon
47 Total Awards
$11,345 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent associate degree programs at Lane Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value computer science schools in Oregon. Lane Community College is a public institution located in Eugene, Oregon. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 47 associate degrees in 2020-2021.

Lane Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $11,345 in tuition and fees each year. Associate Degree recipients from this school accumulate an average of $21,053 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online classes at Lane Community College. In 2019-2020 about 50% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Lane Community College also took the #2 spot in our Best Computer Science Associate Degree Schools in Oregon rankings.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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