2023 Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Indiana

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 Indiana for Engineering for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Engineering is the 79th most popular major in the country with 11,796 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,873 and had an average of $20,557 in loans still to pay off.

Across Indiana, there were 276 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,165 and $26,919 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Indiana for Engineering for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Indiana for Engineering for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Indiana for Engineering for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Indiana

1

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

1 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Indiana for Engineering for a Master’s list. Purdue University - Main Campus is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 96 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Purdue also made our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list, coming in at #1.Among the 46,655 students enrolled at Purdue University - Main Campus, 1 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,765. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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%. 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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Purdue University Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, Indiana

201 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$6,045 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University Fort Wayne. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Indiana for Engineering for a Master’s list. Purdue University Fort Wayne is a public institution located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 22 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

PFW also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” ranking.According to our most recent data, PFW supports 8,093 students, and 201 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 106 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,045. During this same period, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.