2023 Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania

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 Pennsylvania for Engineering for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Engineering is the 96th most popular major in the country with 9,018 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 444 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Engineering for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general 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 general engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Engineering for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania doctor’s degree vets studying engineering.

Top 2 Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania

1

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

117 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Engineering for a Doctorate. This fairly large school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 11 doctorate’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Carnegie Mellon not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list.Among the 13,519 students enrolled at Carnegie Mellon, 117 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 72 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,422. During this same period, 36 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. 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%.

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Villanova University
Villanova, Pennsylvania

997 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$6,584 Average GI Bill® Award

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Engineering for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Villanova University landed the #2 spot on the list. Villanova is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Villanova, Pennsylvania. It awarded 17 doctorate’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Villanova also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking.Of the 11,032 students enrolled at Villanova University, 997 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 824 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,584. To help with additional expenses, 41 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. 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%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Villanova University]](/colleges/villanova-university/student-life/veterans/)

• Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.