2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Financial Planning for a Bachelor’s

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Financial Planning for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Financial Planning & Services is the 430th most popular major in the country with 4,087 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 39 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Financial Planning for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in financial planning and services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality financial planning and services programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the financial planning and services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Financial Planning for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Financial Planning for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region

1

University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida

1,067 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Financial Planning for a Bachelor’s list. University of North Florida is a public institution located in Jacksonville, Florida. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

UNF not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Among the 16,926 students enrolled at UNF, 1,067 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 616 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $3,959. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of North Florida Veteran Student Life Report

2

Freed-Hardeman University
Henderson, Tennessee

43 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$13,165 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Freed-Hardeman University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Financial Planning for a Bachelor’s. This small school is located in Henderson, Tennessee, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s financial planning degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying financial planning list, FHU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Freed-Hardeman University supports 2,188 students, and 43 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 26 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $13,165. To help with additional expenses, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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%.

Full Freed-Hardeman University Veteran Student Life Report

• Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’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 Dave Dugdale.