2023 Most Veteran Friendly for French Studies for a Master’s

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly for French Studies for a Master’s” ranking.

French Studies is the 883rd most popular major in the country with 144 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for French Studies for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in French studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent French studies 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 French studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly for French Studies for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for French Studies for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best French Studies Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

98 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$20,111 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for French Studies for a Master’s list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s French studies students in 2020-2021.

Brown also made our “Best French Studies Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.Of the 9,948 students enrolled at Brown, 98 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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New York University
New York, New York

1 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for French Studies for a Master’s list. New York, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s French studies degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.

NYU also made our “Best French Studies Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 52,775 students enrolled at New York University were GI Bill® students, of which 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,388. On top of their other funding sources, 1 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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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

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 Karl Udo Gerth.