2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Engineering Mechanics for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
34
Degrees Awarded
$33,200
Avg Cost*
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Engineering Mechanics for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
General Engineering Mechanics is the 743rd most popular major in the country with 272 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 50 general engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 general engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general engineering mechanics programs and a strong support system for 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 general engineering mechanics program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Engineering Mechanics for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying general engineering mechanics.
Top 1 Best General Engineering Mechanics Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Engineering Mechanics for a Bachelor’s list. Virginia Tech is a large public school situated in Blacksburg, Virginia. It awarded 34 bachelors’s general engineering mechanics degrees in 2020-2021.
Virginia Tech also made our “Best General Engineering Mechanics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” 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 qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
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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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