2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Maryland for Chem Eng for a Master’s

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Maryland for Chem Eng for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Chemical Engineering is the 70th most popular major in the country with 12,917 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, chemical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $65,870 and had an average of $23,285 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 285 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,580 and $20,797 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Maryland for Chem Eng for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in chemical engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent chemical engineering programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the chemical engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Maryland for Chem Eng for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Maryland for Chem Eng for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maryland

1

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

4 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Maryland for Chem Eng for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #1 spot on the list. Johns Hopkins is located in Baltimore, Maryland and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 46 masters’s chem eng degrees to qualified students.

Johns Hopkins not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list.According to our most recent data, Johns Hopkins supports 28,890 students, and 4 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 2 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $1,793. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Johns Hopkins University]](/colleges/johns-hopkins-university/student-life/veterans/)

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University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Baltimore, Maryland

53 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$9,027 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - Baltimore County. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Maryland for Chem Eng for a Master’s list. UMBC is a fairly large school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 11 masters’s chem eng degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our maryland master’s degree vets studying chem eng list, UMBC has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Maryland - Baltimore County supports 13,497 students, and 53 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 30 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $9,027. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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