2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maintenance Management for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maintenance Management for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 7,153 people earned their degree in operations management, making the major the 161st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 2,375 operations management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maintenance Management for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in operations management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent operations management programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the operations management program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
More Ways to Rank Operations Management Schools
The maintenance management school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maintenance Management for a Master’s”.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maintenance Management for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree vets studying maintenance management.
Top 2 Best Operations Management Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maintenance Management for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Clemson University landed the #1 spot on the list. Clemson, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s maintenance management degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
Clemson also made our “Best Operations Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 922 of the 26,406 students enrolled at Clemson University were GI Bill® students, of which 429 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,920. In addition to receiving other benefits, 15 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Clemson University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Clemson University]](/colleges/clemson-university/student-life/veterans/)
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maintenance Management for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Wesleyan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Wesleyan University is a small school located in Central, South Carolina that handed out 21 masters’s maintenance management degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at SWU, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Operations Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 40 of the 1,345 students enrolled at SWU were GI Bill® students, of which 28 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $9,857. During this same period, 7 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. SWU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
Full Southern Wesleyan University 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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