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Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for South Asian Studies for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia University in the City of New York landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbia is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 2 masters’s South Asian studies degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our middle atlantic region master’s degree vets studying south asian studies list, Columbia has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best South Asian Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Columbia supports 30,135 students, and 739 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 467 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $22,069. To help with additional expenses, 328 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 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.
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