2023 Best Woodworking Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$49,200
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly for Woodworking for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 431 people earned their degree in woodworking, making the major the 330th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, woodworking graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,324 and had an average of $18,500 in loans still to pay off.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality woodworking 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 woodworking program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Woodworking for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Woodworking for a Master’s”.
Top 1 Best Woodworking Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island School of Design. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Woodworking for a Master’s list. RISD is a private not-for-profit institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
RISD also made our “Best Woodworking Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 16 of the 2,227 students enrolled at RISD were GI Bill® students, of which 5 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $20,999. To help with additional expenses, 3 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. 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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