2023 Best Middle/Near Eastern & Semitic Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics, Other Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia University in the City of New York. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other for a Doctorate list. New York, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic languages, literatures, and linguistics, other degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Columbia did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Middle/Near Eastern & Semitic Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics, Other Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 739 of the 30,135 students enrolled at Columbia University in the City of New York were GI Bill® students, of which 467 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $22,069. During this same period, 328 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Columbia]](/colleges/columbia-university-in-the-city-of-new-york/student-life/veterans/)