2023 Most Veteran Friendly in California for Biophysics for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$34,300
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. 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 California for Biophysics for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 269 people earned their degree in biophysics, making the major the 732nd most popular in the United States.
Across California, there were 59 biophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Biophysics for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biophysics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great biophysics programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the biophysics program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in California for Biophysics for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Biophysics for a Master’s”.
Top 2 Best Biophysics Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in California
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Los Angeles. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in California for Biophysics for a Master’s. UCLA is a large school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 2 masters’s biophysics degrees in 2020-2021.
UCLA also took the #2 spot in our “Best Biophysics Master’s Degree Schools in California” ranking.According to our most recent data, UCLA supports 44,589 students, and 7 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 4 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,071. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University of California - Los Angeles]](/colleges/university-of-california-los-angeles/student-life/veterans/)
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in California for Biophysics for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Stanford University landed the #2 spot on the list. Stanford, California is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s biophysics degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
Stanford also took the #1 spot in our “Best Biophysics Master’s Degree Schools in California” ranking.According to our most recent data, Stanford supports 15,953 students, and 188 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 118 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,909. During this same period, 61 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Stanford University]](/colleges/stanford-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.