2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Insurance for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
128
Degrees Awarded
$65,571
Avg Salary
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 Wisconsin for Insurance for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
Insurance is the 201st most popular major in the country with 1,809 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, insurance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $57,764 and had an average of $24,058 in loans still to pay off.
Across Wisconsin, there were 138 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,571 and $24,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 128 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,390 and $27,888 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great insurance 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 insurance program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Insurance for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Insurance for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Insurance for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Insurance Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Wisconsin
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Insurance for a Bachelor’s list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s insurance degrees to 128 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UW - Madison, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Insurance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” ranking.Of the 44,640 students enrolled at UW - Madison, 4 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UW - Madison offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UW - Madison]](/colleges/university-of-wisconsin-madison/student-life/veterans/)
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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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