2023 Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Architecture for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$58,054
Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Architecture for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 New York, there were 212 general architecture graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,814 and $29,383 respectively.
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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Architecture for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Architecture for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Architecture for a Master’s”.
Top 1 Best General Architecture Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in New York
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Architecture for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute landed the #1 spot on the list. Troy, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s architecture degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our new york master’s degree vets studying architecture list, RPI has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Architecture Master’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking.Among the 7,501 students enrolled at RPI, 104 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 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. To help with additional expenses, 59 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
Full Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Veteran Student Life Report
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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
- *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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