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2023 Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region

1 Ranked Colleges
64 Degrees Awarded
$33,600 Avg Cost*
Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Engineering Science for a Bachelor's

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Engineering Science for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Engineering Science is the 205th most popular major in the country with 1,454 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $76,473 and had an average of $22,601 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 137 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 64 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering science 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 engineering science program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Engineering Science for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying engineering science.

Top 1 Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region

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Vanderbilt crest
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Engineering Science for a Bachelor’s. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 38 bachelors’s engineering science degrees in 2020-2021.

Vanderbilt also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 13 of the 13,537 students enrolled at Vanderbilt 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 $17,769. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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%.

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