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2023 Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Georgia

2 Ranked Colleges
259 Degrees Awarded
$43,941 Avg Salary
Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Design for a Master's

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Design for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 36,301 people earned their degree in design and applied arts, making the major the 36th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, design and applied arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,426 and had an average of $25,481 in loans still to pay off.

Across Georgia, there were 2,046 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,584 and $26,752 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Design for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in design and applied arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent design and applied arts programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the design and applied arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Design for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Design for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Georgia

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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Design for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 12 masters’s design degrees in 2020-2021.

Georgia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list.According to our most recent data, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus supports 39,771 students, and 430 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 240 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,376. In addition to receiving other benefits, 2 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate 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%.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Savannah College of Art and Design. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Design for a Master’s. Savannah College of Art and Design is located in Savannah, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 245 masters’s design degrees to qualified students.

SCAD also made our “Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list, coming in at #1.Among the 14,265 students enrolled at SCAD, 193 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 135 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $20,695. In addition to receiving other benefits, 91 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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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