You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Nuclear Engineering for a Master’s list. RPI is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Troy, New York. It awarded 2 masters’s nuclear engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at RPI, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Among the 7,501 students enrolled at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 104 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 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. During this same period, 59 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.