You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Merced. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Computer Software Engineering for a Doctorate list. Merced, California is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s computer software engineering degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our far western us region doctor’s degree vets studying computer software engineering list, UC Merced has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Software Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, UC Merced supports 9,018 students, and 87 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 21 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,314. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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