2023 Best Health Occupations Teacher Education Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Health Occupations Teacher Education for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 48 people earned their degree in health occupations teacher education, making the major the 1162nd most popular in the United States.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Health Occupations Teacher Education for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in health occupations teacher education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent health occupations teacher education programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the health occupations teacher education program at the school. 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 Health Occupations Teacher Education for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Health Occupations Teacher Education for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Health Occupations Teacher Education for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Health Occupations Teacher Education Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

1 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Health Occupations Teacher Education for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. UIC is a public institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 16 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our master’s degree vets studying health occupations teacher education list, UIC has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Health Occupations Teacher Education Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.Of the 33,518 students enrolled at UIC, 1 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $23,878. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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%.

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University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

7 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$14,872 Average GI Bill® Award

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Health Occupations Teacher Education for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rochester landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Rochester, New York, and it awarded 14 masters’s health occupations teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Rochester, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Health Occupations Teacher Education Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Rochester supports 11,741 students, and 7 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 3 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,872. During this same period, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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. 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Rochester Veteran Student Life Report

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aparajita Datta.