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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 the New England Region for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 676 people earned their degree in other human development, family studies, and related services, making the major the 526th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 93 other human development, family studies, and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 83 other human development, family studies, and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other human development, family studies, and related services 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 other human development, family studies, and related services program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
The other human development, family studies, & related services school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Bachelor’s”.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Merrimack College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Bachelor’s. Merrimack is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in North Andover, Massachusetts. It awarded 83 bachelors’s other human development, family studies, and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
Merrimack also made our “Best Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 72 of the 5,418 students enrolled at Merrimack College were GI Bill® students, of which 39 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,794. To help with additional expenses, 11 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Merrimack College offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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 Merrimack]](/colleges/merrimack-college/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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