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2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor's

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 in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 1,792 people earned their degree in industrial design, making the major the 304th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 395 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 301 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 10 colleges that offered a degree in industrial design. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great industrial design programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the industrial design program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 10 Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drexel University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s product design degrees to 22 students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Drexel, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Among the 23,589 students enrolled at Drexel University, 2 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. 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.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. 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%.

Full Drexel University Veteran Student Life Report

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Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Syracuse University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s. Located in Syracuse, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s product design students in 2020-2021.

Syracuse did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Among the 21,322 students enrolled at Syracuse, 385 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 250 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $20,840. In addition to receiving other benefits, 217 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Syracuse does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Syracuse]](/colleges/syracuse-university/student-life/veterans/)

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Out of the 10 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rochester Institute of Technology landed the #3 spot on the list. Rochester, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s product design degrees to 47 students in 2020-2021.

RIT also took the #7 spot in our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, RIT supports 16,158 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $17,424. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full Rochester Institute of Technology Veteran Student Life Report

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The New School
New York, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The New School. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s list. New School University is a fairly large school located in New York, New York that handed out 43 bachelors’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree vets studying product design list, New School University has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 117 of the 9,047 students enrolled at The New School were GI Bill® students, of which 69 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,786. On top of their other funding sources, 51 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. The New School does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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 The New School]](/colleges/the-new-school/student-life/veterans/)

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Montclair State University
Montclair, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montclair State University. The school came in at #5 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s. Montclair State is located in Montclair, New Jersey and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s product design degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree vets studying product design list, Montclair State has also earned the #8 rank in our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 337 of the 21,005 students enrolled at Montclair State were GI Bill® students, of which 186 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,727. On top of their other funding sources, 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%.

Full Montclair State University Veteran Student Life Report

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New Jersey Institute of Technology ranked #6 on this year’s Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Newark, New Jersey, this fairly large public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s product design students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NJIT, the school also landed the #9 spot in our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, NJIT supports 11,652 students, and 164 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 83 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,409. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Full NJIT Veteran Student Life Report

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Maryland Institute College of Art ranked #7 on this year’s Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s list. MICA is located in Baltimore, Maryland and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s product design degrees to qualified students.

MICA also took the #5 spot in our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, MICA supports 1,892 students, and 66 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 45 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $23,802. In addition to receiving other benefits, 29 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full MICA Veteran Student Life Report

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Kean University
Union, New Jersey

Kean University ranked #8 on this year’s Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s list. This fairly large school is located in Union, New Jersey, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.

Kean did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #10 on our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 253 of the 14,064 students enrolled at Kean University were GI Bill® students, of which 131 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $9,357. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Kean University offers credit for military training for eligible students.

Full Kean University Veteran Student Life Report

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Pratt Institute - Main
Brooklyn, New York

Pratt Institute - Main ranked #9 on this year’s Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s list. Pratt Institute - Main is a medium-sized school located in Brooklyn, New York that handed out 77 bachelors’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.

Pratt Institute also took the #3 spot in our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 4,353 students enrolled at Pratt Institute - Main were GI Bill® students, of which 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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. 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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Fashion Institute of Technology came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s ranking. FIT SUNY is a medium-sized public school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 31 bachelors’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.

FIT SUNY also made our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 83 of the 8,191 students enrolled at Fashion Institute of Technology were GI Bill® students, of which 45 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,456. During this same period, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Fashion Institute of Technology does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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