2023 Most Veteran Friendly in California for Other Engineering for a Doctorate

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 California for Other Engineering for a Doctorate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Other Engineering is the 252nd most popular major in the country with 2,760 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across California, there were 419 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Other Engineering for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other engineering 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 other engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in California for Other Engineering for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Other Engineering for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Best Other Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in California

1

University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, California

112 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in California for Other Engineering for a Doctorate list. Located in La Jolla, California, this large public school awarded 22 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s other engineering students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UCSD, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Other Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of California - San Diego supports 39,576 students, and 112 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 54 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $1,596. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

[Read full report on veteran student life at University of California - San Diego]](/colleges/university-of-california-san-diego/student-life/veterans/)

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Stanford University
Stanford, California

188 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$18,909 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stanford University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in California for Other Engineering for a Doctorate list. Stanford University is located in Stanford, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 doctorate’s other engineering degrees to qualified students.

Stanford also made our “Best Other Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 188 of the 15,953 students enrolled at Stanford were GI Bill® students, of which 118 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,909. On top of their other funding sources, 61 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Stanford 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

Footnotes

• *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.