You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Dairy Science for a Master’s list. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 1 masters’s dairy science degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Virginia Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Dairy Science Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” ranking.Among the 37,024 students enrolled at Virginia Tech, 119 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 108 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,314. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.
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