2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Nuclear Engineering for a Bachelor’s
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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Nuclear Engineering for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Nuclear Engineering is the 468th most popular major in the country with 864 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 22 general nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general nuclear 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 general nuclear engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Nuclear Engineering for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Nuclear Engineering for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best General Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Nuclear Engineering for a Bachelor’s list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general nuclear engineering degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at MIT, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, MIT supports 11,254 students, and 129 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 38 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $17,024. In addition to receiving other benefits, 32 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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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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