2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s
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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 Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 Southeast region, there were 129 general manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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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The general manufacturing engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s”.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree vets studying general manufacturing engineering.
Top 2 Best General Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s. North Carolina State University is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 38 masters’s general manufacturing engineering degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at NC State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1,102 of the 36,042 students enrolled at NC State were GI Bill® students, of which 493 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,886. To help with additional expenses, 27 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 13 masters’s general manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Georgia Tech also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 430 of the 39,771 students enrolled at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus were GI Bill® students, of which 240 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,376. To help with additional expenses, 2 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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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