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With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Other Engineering Technologies & Engineering-Related Fields for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 1,768 people earned their degree in other engineering technologies and engineering-related fields, making the major the 347th most popular in the United States.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 24 other engineering technologies and engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 other engineering technologies and engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other engineering technologies and engineering-related fields programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other engineering technologies and engineering-related fields program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Other Engineering Technologies & Engineering-Related Fields for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania associate degree vets studying other engineering technologies & engineering-related fields.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Other Engineering Technologies & Engineering-Related Fields for an Associate list. Located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, this small public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified associates’s other engineering technologies and engineering-related fields students in 2020-2021.
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Other Engineering Technologies & Engineering-Related Fields Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list.Among the 1,227 students enrolled at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, 36 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 18 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,604. During this same period, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology offers credit for military training for eligible students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology]](/colleges/thaddeus-stevens-college-of-technology/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.
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