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2023 Best Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Illinois

1 Ranked Colleges
18 Degrees Awarded
$66,324 Avg Salary
Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor's

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s” ranking.

Engineering-Related Fields is the 112th most popular major in the country with 6,736 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering-related fields graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $77,404 and had an average of $26,200 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 172 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $85,668 and $35,501 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering-related fields programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the engineering-related fields program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The engineering-related fields 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 Illinois for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree vets studying engineering-related fields.

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Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Illinois Institute of Technology is a medium-sized school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 18 bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2020-2021.

Illinois Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 83 of the 6,325 students enrolled at Illinois Tech were GI Bill® students, of which 52 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,905. During this same period, 14 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 Illinois Tech]](/colleges/illinois-institute-of-technology/student-life/veterans/)

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