2023 Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Ohio

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies is the 30th most popular major in the country with 16,243 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,881 and had an average of $22,102 in loans still to pay off.

Across Ohio, there were 453 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,023 and $25,180 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 304 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,341 and $26,852 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality area, ethnic, culture, and gender 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, ethnic, culture, and gender studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for ohio bachelor’s degree vets studying area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies.

Top 2 Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Ohio

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Miami University - Oxford
Oxford, Ohio

405 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Miami University - Oxford landed the #1 spot on the list. Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large school located in Oxford, Ohio that handed out 70 bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Miami University - Oxford also took the #1 spot in our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Ohio” ranking.According to our most recent data, Miami University - Oxford supports 18,880 students, and 405 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 259 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,877. In addition to receiving other benefits, 6 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Miami University - Oxford does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. 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%.

Full Miami University - Oxford Veteran Student Life Report

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Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio

28 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$23,015 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oberlin College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Ohio for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s. Located in Oberlin, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 58 degrees to qualified bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies students in 2020-2021.

Oberlin also made our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Ohio” list, coming in at #2.According to our most recent data, Oberlin College supports 2,658 students, and 28 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 21 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $23,015. In addition to receiving other benefits, 17 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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

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