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2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s

5 Ranked Colleges
436 Degrees Awarded
$42,638 Avg Salary
Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor's

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Transportation & Materials Moving is the 33rd most popular major in the country with 29,084 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, transportation and materials moving graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,489 and had an average of $13,949 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 1,122 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,313 and $21,573 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 436 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in transportation and materials moving. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality transportation and materials moving 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 transportation and materials moving program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 5 Best Transportation & Materials Moving Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Rocky Mountains Region

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah Valley University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s list. Orem, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s transportation and materials moving degrees to 219 students in 2020-2021.

UVU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Transportation & Materials Moving Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 813 of the 40,936 students enrolled at UVU were GI Bill® students, of which 379 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,550. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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%.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s. Logan, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s transportation and materials moving degrees to 54 students in 2020-2021.

USU also took the #3 spot in our “Best Transportation & Materials Moving Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.Among the 27,691 students enrolled at Utah State University, 3 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $285. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Metropolitan State University of Denver. The school came in at #3 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s. MSU Denver is a fairly large public school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 93 bachelors’s transportation and materials moving degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MSU Denver, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Transportation & Materials Moving Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.Of the 19,086 students enrolled at MSU Denver, 1,222 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 867 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,619. To help with additional expenses, 7 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. MSU Denver does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

[Read full report on veteran student life at MSU Denver]](/colleges/metropolitan-state-college-of-denver/student-life/veterans/)

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Rocky Mountain College
Billings, Montana

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rocky Mountain College landed the #4 spot on the list. Rocky Mountain College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Billings, Montana. It awarded 21 bachelors’s transportation and materials moving degrees in 2020-2021.

Rocky also took the #4 spot in our “Best Transportation & Materials Moving Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.Among the 1,014 students enrolled at Rocky Mountain College, 47 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 29 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,888. On top of their other funding sources, 19 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Rocky]](/colleges/rocky-mountain-college/student-life/veterans/)

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Westminster College Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Westminster College Utah. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Transportation & Materials Moving for a Bachelor’s list. Westminster College Salt Lake is a small school located in Salt Lake City, Utah that handed out 35 bachelors’s transportation and materials moving degrees in 2020-2021.

Westminster College Salt Lake also made our “Best Transportation & Materials Moving Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #2.Our most recent data shows that 63 of the 1,849 students enrolled at Westminster College Utah were GI Bill® students, of which 33 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,108. To help with additional expenses, 7 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Westminster College Utah does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Westminster College Salt Lake]](/colleges/westminster-college-utah/student-life/veterans/)

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