2023 Best General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Virginia
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$33,600
Avg Cost*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Health and Wellness for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Health & Wellness is the 141st most popular major in the country with 6,105 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Virginia, there were 21 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Health and Wellness for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general health and wellness. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general health and wellness programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the general health and wellness program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Health and Wellness for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Health and Wellness for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Virginia
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hampton University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Health and Wellness for a Bachelor’s list. Hampton is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hampton, Virginia. It awarded 6 bachelors’s health and wellness degrees in 2020-2021.
Hampton did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list.Our most recent data shows that 34 of the 3,516 students enrolled at Hampton were GI Bill® students, of which 24 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,739. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
Full Hampton University Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stratford University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Health and Wellness for a Bachelor’s. Fairfax, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s health and wellness degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
Stratford University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list.Among the 1,947 students enrolled at Stratford University, 35 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 34 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $11,079. In addition to receiving other benefits, 4 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Stratford University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Stratford University Veteran Student Life Report
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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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