2023 Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Colleges for Veterans in Rhode Island
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Ranked Colleges
230
Degrees Awarded
$42,500
Avg Cost*
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Rhode Island for Mechanic & Repair Technologies” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 96,336 people earned their degree in mechanic and repair technologies, making the major the 27th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, mechanic and repair technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,873 and had an average of $12,430 in loans still to pay off.
Across Rhode Island, there were 230 mechanic and repair technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,356 and $12,931 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mechanic and repair technologies programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the mechanic and repair technologies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Mechanic & Repair Technologies” list to help you make the college decision.
One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Mechanic & Repair Technologies
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Mechanic & Repair Technologies”.
Top 1 Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Colleges for Veterans in Rhode Island
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Mechanic & Repair Technologies that were part of this year’s ranking, New England Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. New England Tech is a small private not-for-profit school situated in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. It awarded 130 ’s mechanic and repair technologies degrees in 2020-2021.
New England Tech also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 259 of the 2,031 students enrolled at New England Institute of Technology were GI Bill® students, of which 135 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,686. During this same period, 34 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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 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.
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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
- *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.
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