2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Engineering for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
1,086
Degrees Awarded
$57,302
Avg Salary
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Engineering for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Engineering is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 198,468 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,653 and had an average of $23,855 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 32,428 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,704 and $21,479 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1,086 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,803 and $17,868 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering programs, but they also offer a lot of support to 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 engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Engineering for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Engineering for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Engineering Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Engineering for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Portland Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Portland, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Portland Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Portland Community College supports 22,904 students, and 1,126 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 701 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $2,236. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
Full Portland Community College 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.
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