2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Food Technology and Processing for a Master’s

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Food Technology and Processing for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 95 people earned their degree in food technology and processing, making the major the 1034th most popular in the United States.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Food Technology and Processing for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in food technology and processing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great food technology and processing programs and a strong support system for 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 food technology and processing program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Food Technology and Processing for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Food Technology and Processing for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Food Technology & Processing Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

1,099 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$6,562 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Food Technology and Processing for a Master’s list. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s food technology and processing degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

K -State also made our “Best Food Technology & Processing Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.Among the 20,854 students enrolled at Kansas State University, 1,099 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 647 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,562. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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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2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

9 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Food Technology and Processing for a Master’s list. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified masters’s food technology and processing students in 2020-2021.

UGA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Food Technology & Processing Master’s Degree Schools” list.Our most recent data shows that 9 of the 39,147 students enrolled at University of Georgia were GI Bill® students, of which 3 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,402. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, 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%.

Full University of Georgia Veteran Student Life Report

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Muhammad Irshad Ansari.