2023 Best Facilities Planning & Management Colleges for Veterans

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 for Facilities Planning and Management” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Facilities Planning & Management is the 1181st most popular major in the country with 32 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Facilities Planning and Management” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in facilities planning and management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent facilities planning and management 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 facilities planning and management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Facilities Planning and Management” list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Most Veteran Friendly for Facilities Planning and Management

The colleges and universities below are the best for vets studying facilities planning and management.

Top 2 Best Facilities Planning & Management Colleges for Veterans

1

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

368 GI Bill® Students**

$3,856 Average GI Bill® Award

$70,785 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Facilities Planning and Management that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #1 spot on the list. BYU is located in Provo, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 ’s facilities planning and management degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our vets studying facilities planning and management list, BYU has also earned the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] rank in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Among the 36,461 students enrolled at Brigham Young University - Provo, 368 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 220 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,856. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, 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%.

Full BYU Veteran Student Life Report

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New York City College of Technology
Brooklyn, New York

192 GI Bill® Students**

$3,849 Average GI Bill® Award

$45,868 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York City College of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Facilities Planning and Management. This fairly large school is located in Brooklyn, New York, and it awarded 14 ’s facilities planning and management degrees in 2020-2021.

City Tech also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.According to our most recent data, City Tech supports 15,513 students, and 192 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 124 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,849. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. City Tech offers credit for military training for eligible students.

[Read full report on veteran student life at New York City College of Technology]](/colleges/cuny-new-york-city-college-of-technology/student-life/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

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