2023 Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 Plains States Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Industrial Design is the 304th most popular major in the country with 1,792 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 88 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 81 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in industrial design. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality industrial design programs as well as strong veteran support.

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 Plains States Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Plains States Region

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Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

814 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s product design degrees to 58 students in 2020-2021.

Iowa State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking.Of the 31,822 students enrolled at Iowa State, 814 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 388 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,933. In addition to receiving other benefits, 9 students received funds 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

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University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

752 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Product Design for a Bachelor’s. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large public school awarded 23 degrees to qualified bachelors’s product design students in 2020-2021.

UMN Twin Cities not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Industrial Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 752 of the 52,017 students enrolled at UMN Twin Cities were GI Bill® students, of which 436 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $13,020. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UMN Twin Cities offers credit for military training for eligible students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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

Footnotes

• *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.