2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$33,700
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 878 people earned their degree in construction engineering, making the major the 248th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, construction engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $74,870 and had an average of $24,467 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 125 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,755 and $26,123 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in construction engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great construction engineering 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 construction engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The construction engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s”.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree vets studying construction engineering.
Top 2 Best Construction Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Miami. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s. Coral Gables, Florida is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s construction engineering degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
U Miami did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Construction Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.According to our most recent data, U Miami supports 17,809 students, and 4 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 4 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $22,198. To help with additional expenses, 2 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. U Miami offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University of Miami]](/colleges/university-of-miami/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Construction Engineering for a Master’s. UNC Charlotte is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 masters’s construction engineering degrees to qualified students.
UNC Charlotte did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Construction Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.According to our most recent data, UNC Charlotte supports 30,146 students, and 1,476 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 642 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,691. In addition to receiving other benefits, 13 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full UNC Charlotte 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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