2023 Best Literature Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$20,202
Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Literature for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 683 people earned their degree in literature, making the major the 264th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, literature graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,788 and had an average of $26,372 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 71 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,202 and $26,695 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent literature 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 literature program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Literature for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Literature for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree vets studying literature.
Top 1 Best Literature Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bennington College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Literature for a Bachelor’s list. Bennington College is located in Bennington, Vermont and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 bachelors’s literature degrees to qualified students.
Bennington also made our “Best Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1.According to our most recent data, Bennington supports 799 students, and 9 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 6 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $19,104. In addition to receiving other benefits, 3 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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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.