2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Labor Studies for a Master’s

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 for Labor Studies for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Labor Studies is the 938th most popular major in the country with 171 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Labor Studies for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in labor studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality labor studies programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the labor studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The labor studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly for Labor Studies for a Master’s”.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Labor Studies for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Labor Studies for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Labor Studies Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

477 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Labor Studies for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #1 spot on the list. UMass Amherst is a public institution located in Amherst, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 19 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

UMass Amherst did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Labor Studies Master’s Degree Schools” list.Our most recent data shows that 477 of the 31,642 students enrolled at University of Massachusetts Amherst were GI Bill® students, of which 252 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,295. In addition to receiving other benefits, 21 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. 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 Massachusetts Amherst Veteran Student Life Report

2

The Graduate Center, CUNY
New York, New York

49 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$4,335 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Graduate Center, CUNY. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Labor Studies for a Master’s list. This medium-sized school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 26 masters’s labor studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The Graduate Center also made our “Best Labor Studies Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2.Among the 9,300 students enrolled at The Graduate Center, 49 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 9 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,335. 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 10 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 The Graduate Center]](/colleges/cuny-graduate-school-and-university-center/student-life/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 Arunkumar Umapathy.