2023 Best General Architecture Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Architecture for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Architecture is the 127th most popular major in the country with 4,982 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general architecture graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $49,005 and had an average of $26,624 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 684 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,230 and $28,299 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Architecture for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general architecture. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general architecture programs as well as strong veteran support.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general architecture program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Architecture for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Architecture for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best General Architecture Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

196 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Architecture for a Master’s list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 39 diplomas to qualified masters’s architecture students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region master’s degree vets studying architecture list, CUA has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Catholic University of America supports 5,366 students, and 196 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 123 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,878. On top of their other funding sources, 53 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York

104 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Architecture for a Master’s. This medium-sized school is located in Troy, New York, and it awarded 4 masters’s architecture degrees in 2020-2021.

RPI also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 104 of the 7,501 students enrolled at RPI were GI Bill® students, of which 72 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $23,164. During this same period, 59 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Notes and References

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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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