2023 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in South Carolina

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Management Science for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 43,382 people earned their degree in management sciences and quantitative methods, making the major the 23rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, management sciences and quantitative methods graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $65,672 and had an average of $23,166 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Carolina, there were 412 management sciences and quantitative methods graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,990 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 211 management sciences and quantitative methods graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,293 and $28,603 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Management Science for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in management sciences and quantitative methods. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality 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 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 South Carolina for Management Science for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Management Science for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in South Carolina

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University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, South Carolina

1,609 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Management Science for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s management science degrees to 204 students in 2020-2021.

UofSC also made our “Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list, coming in at #1.Of the 35,470 students enrolled at UofSC, 1,609 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 651 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,453. During this same period, 33 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Full University of South Carolina - Columbia Veteran Student Life Report

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Anderson University South Carolina
Anderson, South Carolina

100 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$8,507 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Anderson University South Carolina. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Management Science for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Anderson, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s management science students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Anderson University South Carolina, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” ranking.Among the 3,848 students enrolled at Anderson University South Carolina, 100 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 47 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,507. During this same period, 14 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Anderson University South Carolina offers 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%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Anderson University South Carolina]](/colleges/anderson-university-sc/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
• Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 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.

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