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Oregon Tech scholarships and merit aid

Oregon Tech offers merit scholarships aimed at engineering-minded students and those with demonstrated leadership potential.

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The short answer

Is Oregon Tech worth a closer look?

Oregon Tech is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 8 published awards, and 4 are based on those numbers.

Merit tiers84 based on grades or scores

First-year students with school awards25%First-year students, CDS 2024-2025 (school-estimated)

Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

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Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

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Phi Theta Kappa Transfer Scholarship

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Oregon Tech Athletic Scholarships

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Amount not published

Leadership And Diversity Scholarship

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Amount not published

Owls Scholarship

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$2,000–$8,000

Winston Purvine

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.76

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$500–$2,000

Jim Owens

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3

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$1,500–$6,000

Jesse Crabtree

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.51

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$1,000–$4,000

Fred Foulon

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.26

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Who this school may work for

If you're focused on a technical or engineering career and have shown academic strength, Oregon Tech's merit aid is worth a close look.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $13,760 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Oregon Tech, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Oregon Tech, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$9,085
$30,001–$48,000	$8,729
$48,001–$75,000	$14,385
$75,001–$110,000	$18,925
$110,001+	$22,431
All income levels (average)	$15,706

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $13,260
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $37,196
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $15,706

That works out to roughly a 43% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $27,524 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Oregon Tech is a public school; Scorecard's net price figure covers in-state, Title-IV-aid-recipient payers only — there is no comparable federal figure for out-of-state students.

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 54%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 69%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $22,500 (~$239/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $72,273
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 35%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 44%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Oregon Tech's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Oregon Tech's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

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More school data

From the Oregon Tech Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated figures):

Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Oregon Tech’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.

25%of admitsget merit

Average award$4,966Covers ~36% of $13,760 cost of attendance

At Oregon Tech, roughly 1 in 4 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $4,966 — about 36% of total cost.

As filed in Oregon Tech's CDS Section H2A: of 492 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 124 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $4,966. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 291 of 1,672, averaging $4,773. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

The 2024-2025 column is marked "estimated" in the school's own CDS filing — school-projected figures, not final audited counts.

Receive institutional merit25%First-year students, Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated)

Average merit award$4,966Across recipients, Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated)

Source: Common Data Set 2024-2025 (verified 2026-07-23)

Other Oregon Tech scholarships worth checking

These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.

Engineering Scholarship

Amount$1,000EligibilityEngineering majors who are eligible for any Presidential Scholarship are also eligible for an Engineering Scholarship of $1,000 a year, renewable for four years.

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Engineering Honors Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityEngineering Honors Scholarship is awarded through the admission process for engineering majors and has a March 1 deadline.

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Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Oregon Tech’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceOregon Tech cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersPhi Theta Kappa Transfer Scholarship
Merit tiersWinston Purvine

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