2021 Best Area Studies Colleges for Veterans in Louisiana

Finding the Best Area Studies Schools for Vets

In 2019-2020, 18 bachelor's degrees were awarded to area studies students who went to a Louisiana college or university. This makes it the #110 most popular major in the state. This means that 0.4% of the degrees earned in the country were from a school in the state.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality area studies programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the area studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Best Area Studies Schools for Veterans list to help you make the college decision.

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2021 Best Area Studies School for Veterans in Louisiana

The following school tops our list of the Best Area Studies Colleges for Veterans.

Best Area Studies School for Veterans

#1

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, LA

233 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in Quality Area Studies Schools in Louisiana

$44,513 Average Cost

Our rankings recognize Tulane University of Louisiana as the #1 school in this year's rankings. Tulane is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of New Orleans. Tulane did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Colleges for Area Studies in Louisiana list.

Among the 13,927 students enrolled at Tulane, 233 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 166 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for these recipients was $13,736. On top of their other funding sources, 39 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Cost is for the top school 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)

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 the rest 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.
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.

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