2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Other Engineering for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
63
Degrees Awarded
$39,500
Avg Cost*
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 Pennsylvania for Other Engineering for a Master’s” 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 Pennsylvania, there were 303 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other engineering programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Other Engineering for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree vets studying other engineering.
Top 1 Best Other Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Other Engineering for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 37 diplomas to qualified masters’s other engineering students in 2020-2021.
Carnegie Mellon also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 117 of the 13,519 students enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University were GI Bill® students, of which 72 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,422. In addition to receiving other benefits, 36 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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.
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