2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Engineering for a Doctorate

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Engineering for a Doctorate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Engineering is the 79th most popular major in the country with 11,796 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,873 and had an average of $20,557 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 1,043 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,256 and $16,900 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Engineering for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering programs as well as strong veteran support.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Engineering for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Engineering for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region

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Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

98 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$20,111 Average GI Bill® Award

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Engineering for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Brown University is a fairly large school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 16 doctorate’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Brown also made our “Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1.Among the 9,948 students enrolled at Brown University, 98 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 19 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $20,111. During this same period, 40 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts

209 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Engineering for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, this medium-sized public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified doctorate’s engineering students in 2020-2021.

UMass Dartmouth also made our “Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #2.Among the 7,869 students enrolled at University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, 209 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 98 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,026. During this same period, 11 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

Full UMass Dartmouth Veteran Student Life Report

• 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.