2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Rhetoric and Composition for a Master’s
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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 Middle Atlantic Region for Rhetoric and Composition for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 1,871 people earned their degree in rhetoric and composition, making the major the 297th most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 407 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Rhetoric and Composition for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in rhetoric and composition. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great rhetoric and composition programs and a strong support system for 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 rhetoric and composition program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Rhetoric and Composition for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Rhetoric and Composition for a Master’s”.
Top 2 Best Rhetoric & Composition Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Chester University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Rhetoric and Composition for a Master’s. WCUPA is a fairly large public school situated in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It awarded 5 masters’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
WCUPA also made our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2.Of the 17,719 students enrolled at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, 390 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 208 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,155. On top of their other funding sources, 9 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. West Chester University of Pennsylvania offers credit for military training for eligible students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Goucher College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Rhetoric and Composition for a Master’s. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s rhetoric and composition degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
Goucher not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 27 of the 2,015 students enrolled at Goucher College were GI Bill® students, of which 19 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $15,559. On top of their other funding sources, 8 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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.
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