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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Illinois Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Other Design & Applied Arts for a Doctorate. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s other design and applied arts students in 2020-2021.
Illinois Tech also made our “Best Other Design & Applied Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1.Of the 6,325 students enrolled at Illinois Tech, 83 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 52 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $14,905. During this same period, 14 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Illinois Tech does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Illinois Tech]](/colleges/illinois-institute-of-technology/student-life/veterans/)