You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for AE for a Doctorate. This large school is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s AE degrees in 2020-2021.
Virginia Tech also made our “Best Agricultural Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 119 of the 37,024 students enrolled at Virginia Tech were GI Bill® students, of which 108 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,314. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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