2023 Best Alternative Medical Support Services Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Alternative Medical Support for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Alternative Medical Support Services is the 335th most popular major in the country with 227 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, alternative medical support services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $40,302 and had an average of $23,229 in loans still to pay off.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Alternative Medical Support for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in alternative medical support services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great alternative medical support services programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the alternative medical support services program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Alternative Medical Support for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Most Veteran Friendly for Alternative Medical Support for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Alternative Medical Support for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Alternative Medical Support Services Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

Bastyr University
Kenmore, Washington

4 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$8,155 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bastyr University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Alternative Medical Support for a Master’s list. Bastyr University is a small school located in Kenmore, Washington that handed out 15 masters’s alternative medical support degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our master’s degree vets studying alternative medical support list, Bastyr University has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Alternative Medical Support Services Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.Among the 904 students enrolled at Bastyr University, 4 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 2 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,155. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Bastyr University]](/colleges/bastyr-university/student-life/veterans/)

2

Maryland University of Integrative Health
Laurel, Maryland

96 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$11,332 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maryland University of Integrative Health. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Alternative Medical Support for a Master’s list. Maryland University of Integrative Health is located in Laurel, Maryland and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 53 masters’s alternative medical support degrees to qualified students.

MUIH did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Alternative Medical Support Services Master’s Degree Schools” list.Among the 815 students enrolled at MUIH, 96 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 74 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $11,332. During this same period, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. 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.