2023 Best Mechanical Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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 for ME Tech for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mechanical Engineering Technology is the 132nd most popular major in the country with 6,013 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, mechanical engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $54,639 and had an average of $22,526 in loans still to pay off.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for ME Tech for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mechanical engineering technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent mechanical engineering technology 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 mechanical engineering technology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly for ME Tech for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for ME Tech for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Mechanical Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

American Public University System
Charles Town, West Virginia

18,040 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for ME Tech for a Master’s list. American Military University is a large private for-profit school situated in Charles Town, West Virginia. It awarded 59 masters’s ME tech degrees in 2020-2021.

American Military University also made our “Best Mechanical Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2.According to our most recent data, American Military University supports 50,047 students, and 18,040 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 15,422 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $3,793. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

[Read full report on veteran student life at American Military University]](/colleges/american-public-university-system/student-life/veterans/)

2

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

1 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for ME Tech for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 23 degrees to qualified masters’s ME tech students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our master’s degree vets studying me tech list, Northwestern has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Mechanical Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Northwestern University supports 22,603 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $399. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

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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

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.