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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Food Sciences for a Doctorate list. Amherst, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s food sciences degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
UMass Amherst also took the #1 spot in our “Best Food Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking.According to our most recent data, UMass Amherst supports 31,642 students, and 477 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 252 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,295. On top of their other funding sources, 21 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. UMass Amherst offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 UMass Amherst]](/colleges/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/student-life/veterans/)
