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 Medical/Health Humanities for a Master’s list. Columbia University in the City of New York is a large private not-for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 33 masters’s medical/health humanities degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our middle atlantic region master’s degree vets studying medical/health humanities list, Columbia has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Medical/Health Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Of the 30,135 students enrolled at Columbia, 739 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 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. To help with additional expenses, 328 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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