2023 Best Student Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Student Counseling for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Student Counseling is the 72nd most popular major in the country with 13,858 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, student counseling graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $44,291 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Student Counseling for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in student counseling. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality student counseling programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the student counseling program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Student Counseling for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Student Counseling for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree vets studying student counseling.
Top 2 Best Student Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Student Counseling for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Holy Cross landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s student counseling degrees in 2020-2021.
UHC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Student Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Holy Cross supports 1,137 students, and 30 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 11 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,446. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. University of Holy Cross offers credit for military training for eligible students.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University of Holy Cross]](/colleges/our-lady-of-holy-cross-college/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Assumption University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Student Counseling for a Bachelor’s. Assumption University is a small school located in Worcester, Massachusetts that handed out 1 bachelors’s student counseling degrees in 2020-2021.
Assumption also made our “Best Student Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.Of the 2,448 students enrolled at Assumption, 31 were 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 $14,125. In addition to receiving other benefits, 2 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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%.
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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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