2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for AE for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
83
Degrees Awarded
$55,691
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 the Far Western US Region for AE for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Agricultural Engineering is the 204th most popular major in the country with 1,472 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, agricultural engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $57,068 and had an average of $23,086 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 126 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,691 and $23,967 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 83 agricultural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for AE for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in agricultural engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality agricultural engineering programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for AE for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for AE for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for AE for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Oregon State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oregon State is located in Corvallis, Oregon and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 bachelors’s AE degrees to qualified students.
Oregon State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list.According to our most recent data, Oregon State University supports 32,312 students, and 1,559 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1,000 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,385. To help with additional expenses, 17 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, 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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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for AE for a Bachelor’s. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo is a public institution located in San Luis Obispo, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 51 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list.According to our most recent data, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo supports 22,440 students, and 268 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 128 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,027. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
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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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