1
Ranked Colleges
29
Degrees Awarded
$28,100
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 Indiana for Engineering-Related Fields for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Indiana, there were 298 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,157 and $28,775 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering-related fields programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the engineering-related fields program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in Indiana for Engineering-Related Fields for a Doctorate” list to help you make the college decision.
One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Indiana for Engineering-Related Fields for a Doctorate”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Indiana for Engineering-Related Fields for a Doctorate list. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s engineering-related fields degrees to 29 students in 2020-2021.
Purdue did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Doctor’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list.Of the 46,655 students enrolled at Purdue University - Main Campus, 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 tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,765. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Purdue University - Main Campus offers credit for military training for eligible students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. 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 More…
Focus on a Specific Degree Level
Switch to a More General Major
Switch to a Similar Major
Switch to a More Focused Major
Switch to a Different Ranking Method
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.
college factual