General Education at Pacific University

If you plan to study general education, take a look at what Pacific University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Pacific is located in Forest Grove, Oregon and has a total student population of 3,808. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 32 students received a bachelor's degree in education from Pacific.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Education section at the bottom of this page.

Pacific General Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education

Pacific General Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the education progam at Pacific compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The education major at Pacific is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	42
Most Focused General Education Schools	220
Best Value General Education Schools	424

Education Student Demographics at Pacific

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the education majors at Pacific University.

Pacific General Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 28% of education bachelor's degrees went to men and 72% went to women. The typical education bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Pacific since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 66% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in education at Pacific are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Pacific University with a bachelor's in education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	21
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Pacific also has a doctoral program available in education. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Curriculum & Instruction
• Educational Administration
• Teacher Education Subject Specific
• Special Education
• Other Education

Careers That Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for OR, the home state for Pacific University.

Occupation	Jobs in OR	Average Salary in OR
Education Professors	910	$62,640

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By M.O. Stevens under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.