2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Evolutionary Biology for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 Evolutionary Biology for a Master’s” ranking.

Evolutionary Biology is the 890th most popular major in the country with 142 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 99 evolutionary biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Evolutionary Biology for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in evolutionary biology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality evolutionary biology programs as well as strong veteran support.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the evolutionary biology program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Evolutionary Biology for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Evolutionary Biology for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region

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Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

1 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Evolutionary Biology for a Master’s. This fairly large school is located in New Haven, Connecticut, and it awarded 3 masters’s evolutionary biology degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Yale, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Yale University supports 12,060 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,238. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Yale University]](/colleges/yale-university/student-life/veterans/)

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Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

304 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$8,012 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Evolutionary Biology for a Master’s list. Harvard is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Harvard, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.Among the 30,391 students enrolled at Harvard, 304 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 254 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,012. On top of their other funding sources, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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 Harvard]](/colleges/harvard-university/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Evolutionary Biology Master’s Degree Colleges for 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel.