2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods for a Doctorate

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods for a Doctorate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods is the 61st most popular major in the country with 13,371 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 4,216 other management sciences and quantitative methods graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other management sciences and quantitative methods. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other management sciences and quantitative methods programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other management sciences and quantitative methods program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Best Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

324 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods for a Doctorate list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified doctorate’s other management sciences and quantitative methods students in 2020-2021.

UPenn did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Of the 26,552 students enrolled at University of Pennsylvania, 324 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 131 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $19,383. On top of their other funding sources, 78 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at UPenn]](/colleges/university-of-pennsylvania/student-life/veterans/)

2

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York

739 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia University in the City of New York. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods for a Doctorate list. Columbia University in the City of New York is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 8 doctorate’s other management sciences and quantitative methods degrees in 2020-2021.

Columbia also made our “Best Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2.Among the 30,135 students enrolled at Columbia, 739 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 467 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $22,069. On top of their other funding sources, 328 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 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Columbia]](/colleges/columbia-university-in-the-city-of-new-york/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods Doctor’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.

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