2023 Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
14
Degrees Awarded
$61,397
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Equipment Maintenance for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance is the 195th most popular major in the country with 8,717 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, heavy/industrial equipment maintenance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $44,254 and had an average of $12,397 in loans still to pay off.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 heavy/industrial equipment maintenance graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent heavy/industrial equipment maintenance 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 heavy/industrial equipment maintenance program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Equipment Maintenance for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
Most Veteran Friendly for Equipment Maintenance for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Equipment Maintenance for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ferris State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Equipment Maintenance for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Big Rapids, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 14 degrees to qualified bachelors’s equipment maintenance students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ferris, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Ferris supports 11,165 students, and 377 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 189 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,426. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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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