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With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 New York for Game and Interactive Media Design for a Master’s” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 2,692 people earned their degree in game and interactive media design, making the major the 293rd most popular in the United States.
Across New York, there were 68 game and interactive media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality game and interactive media design programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the game and interactive media design program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Game and Interactive Media Design for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Game and Interactive Media Design for a Master’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Game and Interactive Media Design for a Master’s. RPI is a medium-sized school located in Troy, New York that handed out 5 masters’s game and interactive media design degrees in 2020-2021.
RPI also made our “Best Game & Interactive Media Design Master’s Degree Schools in New York” list, coming in at #1.Among the 7,501 students enrolled at RPI, 104 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 72 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $23,164. During this same period, 59 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
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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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