2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
General Operations Research is the 332nd most popular major in the country with 1,698 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 159 general operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general operations research. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general operations research programs and a strong support system for 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 operations research program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s”.
Top 2 Best General Operations Research Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 46 masters’s general operations research degrees in 2020-2021.
UIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Operations Research Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.According to our most recent data, UIUC supports 52,679 students, and 10 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 0 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s. Cleveland, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s general operations research degrees to 23 students in 2020-2021.
Case Western also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Operations Research Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 109 of the 11,465 students enrolled at Case Western Reserve University were GI Bill® students, of which 69 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,799. During this same period, 35 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Case Western Reserve University Veteran Student Life Report
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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.