2023 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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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 in the Southeast Region for Aerospace Engineering for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 8,001 people earned their degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering, making the major the 94th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,535 and had an average of $24,126 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 2,196 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,488 and $25,035 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 27 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality aerospace and aeronautical engineering programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the aerospace and aeronautical engineering 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 the Southeast Region for Aerospace Engineering for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Aerospace Engineering for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Aerospace Engineering for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Aerospace Engineering for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide landed the #1 spot on the list. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide is located in Daytona Beach, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 associates’s aerospace engineering degrees to qualified students.
In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree vets studying aerospace engineering list, Embry-Riddle Worldwide has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 6 of the 13,904 students enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide were GI Bill® students, of which 6 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,465. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide does offer credit for military training for eligible 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%.
Full Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide Veteran Student Life Report
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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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