2023 Best Textile & Apparel Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
126
Degrees Awarded
$37,216
Avg Salary
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 New England Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Textile & Apparel Studies is the 161st most popular major in the country with 3,313 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, textile and apparel studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,996 and had an average of $24,229 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 130 textile and apparel studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,216 and $25,101 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 126 textile and apparel studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in textile and apparel studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent textile and apparel studies programs, but they also offer a lot of support to 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 textile and apparel studies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Textile & Apparel Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s. University of Rhode Island is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 80 bachelors’s textile studies degrees to qualified students.
URI also took the #1 spot in our “Best Textile & Apparel Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.Of the 17,649 students enrolled at University of Rhode Island, 381 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 187 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,022. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at URI]](/colleges/university-of-rhode-island/student-life/veterans/)
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Framingham State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Framingham, Massachusetts, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s textile studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Framingham State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Textile & Apparel Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list.According to our most recent data, Framingham State supports 4,876 students, and 170 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 130 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,993. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Framingham State]](/colleges/framingham-state-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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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