2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$109,775
Avg Salary
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. 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 the Middle Atlantic Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Construction Engineering is the 248th most popular major in the country with 878 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, construction engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $74,870 and had an average of $24,467 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 120 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $109,775 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in construction engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great construction engineering programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the construction engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree vets studying construction engineering.
Top 2 Best Construction Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s list. New York University is located in New York, New York and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 39 masters’s construction engineering degrees to qualified students.
NYU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Construction Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.According to our most recent data, NYU supports 52,775 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,388. In addition to receiving other benefits, 1 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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at NYU]](/colleges/new-york-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stevens Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s. Hoboken, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s construction engineering degrees to 50 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Stevens, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Of the 7,257 students enrolled at Stevens Institute of Technology, 48 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 31 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $17,200. On top of their other funding sources, 12 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 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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