2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Woodworking for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Woodworking for a Master’s” ranking.
Woodworking is the 330th most popular major in the country with 431 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, woodworking graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,324 and had an average of $18,500 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 62 woodworking graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,714 and $26,000 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality woodworking programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the woodworking 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 New England Region for Woodworking for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree vets studying woodworking.
Top 1 Best Woodworking Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Woodworking for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island School of Design landed the #1 spot on the list. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s woodworking degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at RISD, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Woodworking Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.Among the 2,227 students enrolled at RISD, 16 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 5 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $20,999. During this same period, 3 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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