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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 New York for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 6,736 people earned their degree in engineering-related fields, making the major the 112th most popular in the United States. 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 New York, there were 686 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,614 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 308 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,555 and $23,635 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in engineering-related fields. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering-related fields programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 New York for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new york bachelor’s degree vets studying engineering-related fields.
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rochester Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Rochester, New York, and it awarded 46 bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2020-2021.
RIT also made our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” list, coming in at #3.Among the 16,158 students enrolled at RIT, 1 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $17,424. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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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Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, New York University landed the #2 spot on the list. NYU is a large private not-for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 56 bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2020-2021.
NYU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking.Of the 52,775 students enrolled at NYU, 1 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,388. In addition to receiving other benefits, 1 students received funds 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clarkson University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s list. Potsdam, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees to 77 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our new york bachelor’s degree vets studying engineering-related fields list, Clarkson has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 67 of the 4,025 students enrolled at Clarkson University were GI Bill® students, of which 33 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $27,482. In addition to receiving other benefits, 38 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Clarkson Veteran Student Life Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Engineering-Related Fields for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Excelsior College landed the #4 spot on the list. Albany, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering-related fields degrees to 83 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our new york bachelor’s degree vets studying engineering-related fields list, Excelsior College has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking.According to our most recent data, Excelsior College supports 21,974 students, and 2,603 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 2,449 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,255. On top of their other funding sources, 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 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%.
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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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