2023 Best Auditing Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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 for Auditing for a Master’s” ranking.

Auditing is the 945th most popular major in the country with 177 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Auditing for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in auditing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great auditing programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the auditing program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Auditing for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree vets studying auditing.

Top 2 Best Auditing Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

1,283 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Auditing for a Master’s. UW Seattle is located in Seattle, Washington and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 56 masters’s auditing degrees to qualified students.

UW Seattle also made our “Best Auditing Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.Of the 48,149 students enrolled at University of Washington - Seattle Campus, 1,283 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 769 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,190. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Full UW Seattle Veteran Student Life Report

2

Cambridge College
Boston, Massachusetts

7 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 Cambridge College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Auditing for a Master’s. Cambridge College is a small school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 12 masters’s auditing degrees in 2020-2021.

Cambridge College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Auditing Master’s Degree Schools” list.Our most recent data shows that 7 of the 2,764 students enrolled at Cambridge College were GI Bill® students, of which 4 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,459. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Cambridge College Veteran Student Life Report

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

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