2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for AE Tech for a Bachelor’s

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 Great Lakes Region for AE Tech for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,290 people earned their degree in architectural engineering technology, making the major the 238th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, architectural engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,535 and had an average of $22,395 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 349 architectural engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,519 and $18,675 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 168 architectural engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for AE Tech for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in architectural engineering technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent architectural engineering technology 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 architectural engineering technology program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for AE Tech for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vets studying ae tech.

Top 3 Best Architectural Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region

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Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

1 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for AE Tech for a Bachelor’s. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s AE tech degrees to 135 students in 2020-2021.

Purdue also took the #1 spot in our “Best Architectural Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 46,655 students enrolled at Purdue were GI Bill® students, of which 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,765. During this same period, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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 93%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Purdue]](/colleges/purdue-university-main-campus/student-life/veterans/)

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Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

1 GI Bill® Students**

#3 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for AE Tech for a Bachelor’s. IUPUI is a large public school situated in Indianapolis, Indiana. It awarded 23 bachelors’s AE tech degrees in 2020-2021.

IUPUI also took the #3 spot in our “Best Architectural Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 29,390 students enrolled at IUPUI were GI Bill® students, of which 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,439. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. IUPUI offers credit for military training for eligible students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Ferris State University
Big Rapids, Michigan

377 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for AE Tech for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Ferris State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Ferris is a fairly large public school situated in Big Rapids, Michigan. It awarded 10 bachelors’s AE tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Ferris did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Architectural Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Among the 11,165 students enrolled at Ferris, 377 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 189 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,426. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Ferris offers credit for military training for eligible students.

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• Best Architectural Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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.