You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Nuclear Engineering for a Bachelor’s. Troy, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s nuclear engineering degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree vets studying nuclear engineering list, RPI has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 104 of the 7,501 students enrolled at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were GI Bill® students, of which 72 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $23,164. On top of their other funding sources, 59 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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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