2023 Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
19
Degrees Awarded
$33,300
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Gay/Lesbian Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 85 people earned their degree in gay/lesbian studies, making the major the 1230th most popular in the United States.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent gay/lesbian studies programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the gay/lesbian studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Gay/Lesbian Studies for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Gay/Lesbian Studies for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Gay/Lesbian Studies for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cornell University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Ithaca, New York. It awarded 10 bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Cornell, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Among the 23,620 students enrolled at Cornell University, 2 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 2 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,780. In addition to receiving other benefits, 2 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Cornell University]](/colleges/cornell-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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