2023 Best Civil Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
117
Degrees Awarded
$58,283
Avg Salary
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Civil Engineering Tech for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 1,187 people earned their degree in civil engineering technology, making the major the 237th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, civil engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $54,421 and had an average of $25,812 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 273 civil engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,283 and $27,095 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 117 civil engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Civil Engineering Tech for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in civil engineering technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality civil engineering technology programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the civil engineering technology program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Civil Engineering Tech for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree vets studying civil engineering tech.
Top 2 Best Civil Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Civil Engineering Tech for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rochester Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. RIT is located in Rochester, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 56 bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees to qualified students.
RIT also took the #1 spot in our “Best Civil Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, RIT supports 16,158 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $17,424. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. 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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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Civil Engineering Tech for a Bachelor’s. Utica, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
SUNY Poly also made our “Best Civil Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2.Of the 3,044 students enrolled at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, 55 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 31 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,230. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at SUNY Poly]](/colleges/suny-institute-of-technology-at-utica-rome/student-life/veterans/)
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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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