You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Urban Education and Leadership for a Master’s. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 24 diplomas to qualified masters’s urban education and leadership students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Brown, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Urban Education & Leadership Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 98 of the 9,948 students enrolled at Brown were GI Bill® students, of which 19 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $20,111. In addition to receiving other benefits, 40 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%. 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.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Brown]](/colleges/brown-university/student-life/veterans/)