2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for IE for a Master’s

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

Industrial Engineering is the 87th most popular major in the country with 9,072 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, industrial engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,960 and had an average of $24,268 in loans still to pay off.

Across Ohio, there were 256 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,992 and $26,708 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for IE for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in industrial engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality industrial engineering programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the industrial engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for IE for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Best Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Ohio

1

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, Ohio

2 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for IE for a Master’s list. Columbus, Ohio is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s IE degrees to 24 students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ohio State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Ohio” ranking.Among the 61,369 students enrolled at Ohio State University - Main Campus, 2 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $0. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Ohio State University - Main Campus offers credit for military training for eligible students.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Ohio State University - Main Campus]](/colleges/ohio-state-university-main-campus/student-life/veterans/)

2

Ohio University - Athens Campus
Athens, Ohio

726 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for IE for a Master’s. Located in Athens, Ohio, this large public school handed out 5 degrees to qualified masters’s IE students in 2020-2021.

OHIO Athens also made our “Best Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Ohio” list, coming in at #2.Of the 25,714 students enrolled at OHIO Athens, 726 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 324 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,725. During this same period, 10 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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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.