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2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Engineering Mechanics

1 Ranked Colleges
50 Degrees Awarded
$33,200 Avg Cost*
Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Engineering Mechanics

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 Southeast Region for Engineering Mechanics” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Mechanics is the 308th most popular major in the country with 272 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering mechanics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $64,399 and had an average of $24,558 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 50 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,144 and $28,000 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering mechanics programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the engineering mechanics program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Engineering Mechanics

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region vets studying engineering mechanics.

Top 1 Best Engineering Mechanics Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region

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Virginia Tech crest
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Engineering Mechanics. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s engineering mechanics degrees to 48 students in 2020-2021.

Virginia Tech also made our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list, coming in at #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS].Among the 37,024 students enrolled at Virginia Tech, 119 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 108 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $12,314. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Virginia Tech]](/colleges/virginia-polytechnic-institute-and-state-university/student-life/veterans/)

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