2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Entrepreneurship for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$42,900
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 the New England Region for Entrepreneurship for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 11,319 people earned their degree in entrepreneurial studies, making the major the 120th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, entrepreneurial studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,578 and had an average of $25,632 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 595 entrepreneurial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,711 and $24,190 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Entrepreneurship for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in entrepreneurial studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great entrepreneurial studies 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 entrepreneurial studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Entrepreneurship for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Entrepreneurship for a Master’s”.
Top 2 Best Entrepreneurial Studies Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Entrepreneurship for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northeastern is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our new england region master’s degree vets studying entrepreneurship list, Northeastern has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Entrepreneurial Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Northeastern supports 22,905 students, and 9 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 6 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $25,441. On top of their other funding sources, 2 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Northeastern]](/colleges/northeastern-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Elms College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Entrepreneurship for a Master’s. Chicopee, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s entrepreneurship degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
Elms College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Entrepreneurial Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list.Among the 1,355 students enrolled at Elms College, 42 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 21 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $19,819. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Elms College does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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%.
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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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