2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Kansas for AE for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
24
Degrees Awarded
$30,900
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Kansas for AE for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Agricultural Engineering is the 341st most popular major in the country with 1,472 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Kansas, there were 31 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,562 and $28,681 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent agricultural engineering 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 agricultural engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Kansas for AE for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Kansas for AE for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Kansas for AE for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Kansas
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Kansas for AE for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, this large public school awarded 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s AE students in 2020-2021.
K -State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Kansas” list.Our most recent data shows that 1,099 of the 20,854 students enrolled at K -State were GI Bill® students, of which 647 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,562. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. K -State does offer credit for military training for eligible 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Kansas State University Veteran Student Life Report
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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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