2023 Best General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$33,200
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Polymer Engineering for a Doctorate” ranking.
General Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 663rd most popular major in the country with 360 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 39 general polymer amd plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general polymer amd plastics 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 general polymer amd plastics engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The polymer engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Polymer Engineering for a Doctorate”.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Polymer Engineering for a Doctorate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Polymer Engineering for a Doctorate”.
Top 1 Best General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Polymer Engineering for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 6 doctorate’s polymer engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Virginia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Among the 37,024 students enrolled at Virginia Tech, 119 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 108 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $12,314. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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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