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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Master’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other human development, family studies, and related services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other human development, family studies, and related services programs as well as strong veteran support.
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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Master’s list. Auburn, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other human development, family studies, and related services degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.
Auburn also made our “Best Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2.According to our most recent data, Auburn supports 30,737 students, and 1,499 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 746 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,423. On top of their other funding sources, 68 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Clemson University landed the #2 spot on the list. Clemson University is a public institution located in Clemson, South Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 21 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Clemson also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Clemson University supports 26,406 students, and 922 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 429 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,920. On top of their other funding sources, 15 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Master’s list. UMaine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
UMaine also made our “Best Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4.Among the 11,741 students enrolled at UMaine, 21 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 17 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $16,419. During this same period, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. UMaine offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UMaine]](/colleges/university-of-maine/student-life/veterans/)
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #4 spot on the list. UCO is a fairly large public school situated in Edmond, Oklahoma. It awarded 11 masters’s other human development, family studies, and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
UCO also took the #3 spot in our “Best Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 934 of the 14,132 students enrolled at UCO were GI Bill® students, of which 428 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,062. 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.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UCO]](/colleges/university-of-central-oklahoma/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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