2023 Best Nuclear Engineering Technology Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
73
Degrees Awarded
$26,600
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly for Nuclear Engineering Tech for an Associate” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 220 people earned their degree in nuclear engineering technology, making the major the 315th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, nuclear engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $84,153 and had an average of $13,289 in loans still to pay off.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 73 nuclear engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Nuclear Engineering Tech for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in nuclear engineering technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality nuclear engineering technology 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 nuclear engineering technology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Nuclear Engineering Tech for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Nuclear Engineering Tech for an Associate”.
Top 2 Best Nuclear Engineering Technology Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Idaho State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Nuclear Engineering Tech for an Associate list. Pocatello, Idaho is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s nuclear engineering tech degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our associate degree vets studying nuclear engineering tech list, ISU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Idaho State University supports 11,766 students, and 422 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 221 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,419. In addition to receiving other benefits, 4 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Idaho State University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Nuclear Engineering Tech for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Bismarck State College landed the #2 spot on the list. BSC is a small school located in Bismarck, North Dakota that handed out 3 associates’s nuclear engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.
BSC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools” ranking.Among the 3,716 students enrolled at BSC, 194 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 116 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,217. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Bismarck State College]](/colleges/bismarck-state-college/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.