2023 Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 North Carolina, there were 503 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,587 and $22,225 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 430 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,368 and $25,940 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina 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. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s”.

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

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

1 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s. UNC Chapel Hill is a large public school situated in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It awarded 250 bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

UNC Chapel Hill did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 30,092 students enrolled at UNC Chapel Hill were GI Bill® students, of which 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $0. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. 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%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at UNC Chapel Hill]](/colleges/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/student-life/veterans/)

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University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina

1,476 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies for a Bachelor’s list. UNC Charlotte is a large public school situated in Charlotte, North Carolina. It awarded 43 bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2020-2021.

UNC Charlotte did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list.Of the 30,146 students enrolled at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1,476 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 642 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,691. During this same period, 13 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full UNC Charlotte Veteran Student Life Report

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to G. Mützel.