2023 Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 947 people earned their degree in manufacturing engineering, making the major the 243rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, manufacturing engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,583 and had an average of $26,962 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 129 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,571 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in manufacturing engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent manufacturing engineering programs, but they also offer a lot of support to 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 manufacturing engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree vets studying manufacturing engineering.
Top 2 Best 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 Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 38 masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at NC State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Of the 36,042 students enrolled at North Carolina State University, 1,102 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 493 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,886. In addition to receiving other benefits, 27 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. North Carolina State University does offer credit for military training for eligible 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this large public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified masters’s manufacturing engineering students in 2020-2021.
Georgia Tech also made our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2.Our most recent data shows that 430 of the 39,771 students enrolled at Georgia Tech were GI Bill® students, of which 240 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,376. During this same period, 2 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 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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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