2023 Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Polymer Engineering for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 360 people earned their degree in polymer and plastics engineering, making the major the 293rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, polymer and plastics engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $62,838 and had an average of $26,051 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 71 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $26,222 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Polymer Engineering for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in polymer and plastics engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality polymer and plastics engineering programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the polymer and plastics engineering program at the school. 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 Great Lakes Region for Polymer Engineering for a Bachelor’s”.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Polymer Engineering for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vets studying polymer engineering.

Top 2 Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region

1

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

109 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$18,799 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Case Western Reserve University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Polymer Engineering for a Bachelor’s list. Case Western Reserve University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Case Western also made our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1.Among the 11,465 students enrolled at Case Western, 109 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 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. On top of their other funding sources, 35 students received funds through 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Case Western]](/colleges/case-western-reserve-university/student-life/veterans/)

2

University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, Wisconsin

305 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Stout. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Polymer Engineering for a Bachelor’s. University of Wisconsin - Stout is a public institution located in Menomonie, Wisconsin. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

UW - Stout did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Of the 7,970 students enrolled at University of Wisconsin - Stout, 305 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 133 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,590. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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

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.

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