2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Area Studies for a Doctorate
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Area Studies for a Doctorate” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Area Studies is the 115th most popular major in the country with 6,966 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, area studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,127 and had an average of $20,927 in loans still to pay off.
Across Rhode Island, there were 107 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,471 and $15,275 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality area studies programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the area studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The area studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Area Studies for a Doctorate”.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Area Studies for a Doctorate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Area Studies for a Doctorate”.
Top 1 Best Area Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Rhode Island
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Rhode Island for Area Studies for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s area studies students in 2020-2021.
Brown did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Area Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list.Our most recent data shows that 98 of the 9,948 students enrolled at Brown University were GI Bill® students, of which 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. On top of their other funding sources, 40 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Brown]](/colleges/brown-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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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