Colleges in Oregon With the Highest Graduate Earnings
Graduate earnings are bunched together in Oregon. The 19 four-year colleges we rank range only from $44,518 to $87,138, just $42,620 apart.
The median college sits at $59,131, within a few percent of the national median of $59,403. Public colleges (10) have a median of $57,348 and private nonprofit colleges (9) a median of $59,969, and the typical net price across the list is $20,789.
Oregon Institute of Technology ranks first at $87,138, ahead of Linfield University ($81,180) and University of Portland ($80,459).
How this list is built
A college appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Colleges considered
- All 4-year colleges (public, private nonprofit and for-profit)
- Ranked by earnings after 4 years, highest first. Ties are broken by larger undergraduate enrollment, then by name.
- Main campuses only, with at least 60% of core data fields reported
- Main campus located in Oregon
- At least 500 undergraduate students enrolled (fall 2024)
- A reported earnings after 4 years value (schools without one are not ranked)
- This page is published only when at least 15 schools qualify; Oregon has 19
- Data period
- Earnings: median earnings four years after completing, measured in 2022 and 2023 for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 cohorts, in 2024 dollars.
- Net price: average for students receiving aid, academic year 2023-24.
- Graduate debt: median federal loan debt of completers, pooled 2020 and 2021 cohorts.
- Graduation rate: first-time, full-time students who started in fall 2018 (4-year) or fall 2021 (2-year), finishing within 150% of normal time.
- Enrollment: undergraduate students, fall 2024.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, June 2026 release.
Showing all 19 qualifying schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table.
| 1 | Oregon Institute of Technology Klamath Falls, OR Public · 4-year | $87,138 | $15,706 | $22,500 | 56% | 2,892 |
| 2 | Linfield University McMinnville, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $81,180 | $26,536 | $25,000 | 68% | 1,621 |
| 3 | University of Portland Portland, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $80,459 | $28,210 | $21,370 | 80% | 2,957 |
| 4 | Oregon State University Corvallis, OR Public · 4-year | $71,799 | $19,604 | $21,221 | 70% | 30,743 |
| 5 | George Fox University Newberg, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,145 | $31,679 | $24,250 | 70% | 2,699 |
| 6 | Pacific University Forest Grove, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $62,363 | $35,273 | $23,223 | 66% | 1,516 |
| 7 | University of Oregon Eugene, OR Public · 4-year | $62,174 | $22,182 | $20,139 | 72% | 20,497 |
| 8 | Portland State University Portland, OR Public · 4-year | $62,060 | $9,552 | $20,500 | 53% | 13,182 |
| 9 | Bushnell University Eugene, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $59,969 | $20,789 | $23,500 | 59% | 517 |
| 10 | Lane Community College Eugene, OR Public · 4-year | $59,131 | $9,123 | $14,761 | 20% | 6,064 |
| 11 | Lewis & Clark College Portland, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $57,262 | $36,013 | $19,500 | 73% | 2,120 |
| 12 | Eastern Oregon University La Grande, OR Public · 4-year | $55,565 | $17,148 | $20,500 | 40% | 2,172 |
| 13 | Willamette University Salem, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $54,450 | $25,121 | $21,500 | 72% | 1,592 |
| 14 | Western Oregon University Monmouth, OR Public · 4-year | $54,346 | $17,237 | $20,609 | 46% | 3,103 |
| 15 | Southern Oregon University Ashland, OR Public · 4-year | $52,911 | $16,732 | $20,332 | 43% | 2,751 |
| 16 | Mt Hood Community College Gresham, OR Public · 4-year | $52,184 | $7,821 | $13,667 | 25% | 3,856 |
| 17 | Chemeketa Community College Salem, OR Public · 4-year | $50,594 | $8,200 | $12,822 | 22% | 6,610 |
| 18 | Corban University Salem, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $48,593 | $28,035 | $22,625 | 61% | 678 |
| 19 | Reed College Portland, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $44,518 | $33,013 | $21,500 | 74% | 1,320 |
How to compare these colleges
High earnings partly reflect who enrolls and what they study: engineering, nursing and business programs usually pay more than education or the arts, so a school with strong health or technical programs can top the list. Read the earnings next to net price, debt and graduation rate, because earnings count only people who finished, and four years after graduation is early in a career.
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