2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 947 people earned their degree in general manufacturing engineering, making the major the 447th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 39 general manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general manufacturing engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general manufacturing 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 manufacturing engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree vets studying general manufacturing engineering.

Top 2 Best General Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region

1

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

15 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s list. Boston U is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 13 masters’s general manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Boston U, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.Of the 32,718 students enrolled at Boston U, 15 were 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 $25,162. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Boston University Veteran Student Life Report

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, Massachusetts

77 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$15,341 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s. WPI is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s general manufacturing engineering degrees to qualified students.

WPI also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, WPI supports 6,920 students, and 77 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 47 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $15,341. During this same period, 7 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

[Read full report on veteran student life at WPI]](/colleges/worcester-polytechnic-institute/student-life/veterans/)

• Best General Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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.