2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$58,069
Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Middle Atlantic Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Environmental Design is the 258th most popular major in the country with 741 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, environmental design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,901 and had an average of $21,331 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 97 environmental design graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,069 and $24,308 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 93 environmental 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 Environment Design for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental design. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent environmental design programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the environmental design program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rutgers University - New Brunswick landed the #1 spot on the list. Rutgers University - New Brunswick is a large school located in New Brunswick, New Jersey that handed out 7 bachelors’s environment design degrees in 2020-2021.
Rutgers New Brunswick also made our “Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 50,411 students enrolled at Rutgers New Brunswick 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 $3,625. 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.
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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Rutgers New Brunswick]](/colleges/rutgers-university-new-brunswick/student-life/veterans/)
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Environment Design for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University at Buffalo landed the #2 spot on the list. Buffalo, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s environment design degrees to 55 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at University at Buffalo, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental Design Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, University at Buffalo supports 32,347 students, and 382 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 195 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,050. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University at Buffalo]](/colleges/university-at-buffalo/student-life/veterans/)
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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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