2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Alternative Medicine for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$27,453
Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 in the New England Region for Alternative Medicine for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Alternative Medicine & Systems is the 167th most popular major in the country with 3,564 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, alternative medicine and systems graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $29,138 and had an average of $24,035 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 100 alternative medicine and systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,146 and $18,250 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Alternative Medicine for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in alternative medicine and systems. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality alternative medicine and systems 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 alternative medicine and systems program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Alternative Medicine for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Alternative Medicine for a Master’s”.
Top 2 Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Alternative Medicine for a Master’s. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s alternative medicine degrees to 36 students in 2020-2021.
MCPHS University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences supports 7,501 students, and 16 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 7 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $26,279. To help with additional expenses, 3 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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 MCPHS University]](/colleges/massachusetts-college-of-pharmacy-and-health-sciences/student-life/veterans/)
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Alternative Medicine for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Bridgeport landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and it awarded 19 masters’s alternative medicine degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our new england region master’s degree vets studying alternative medicine list, UBridgeport has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, UBridgeport supports 4,155 students, and 85 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 57 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,432. On top of their other funding sources, 4 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UBridgeport]](/colleges/university-of-bridgeport/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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