2023 Best Health Sciences & Services Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in District of Columbia
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Salary
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 District of Columbia for Health Science for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Health Sciences & Services is the 34th most popular major in the country with 35,945 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, health sciences and services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,887 and had an average of $24,736 in loans still to pay off.
Across District of Columbia, there were 182 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,177 and $22,667 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in District of Columbia for Health Science for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in health sciences and services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent health sciences and services programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health sciences and services program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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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 in District of Columbia for Health Science for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in District of Columbia for Health Science for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in District of Columbia for Health Science for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Health Sciences & Services Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in District of Columbia
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Howard University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in District of Columbia for Health Science for a Bachelor’s. Howard University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 31 bachelors’s health science degrees in 2020-2021.
Howard did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Health Sciences & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list.Our most recent data shows that 342 of the 10,859 students enrolled at Howard were GI Bill® students, of which 136 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $13,339. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinity Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in District of Columbia for Health Science for a Bachelor’s. Trinity College is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 47 bachelors’s health science degrees to qualified students.
Trinity College also made our “Best Health Sciences & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list, coming in at #2.According to our most recent data, Trinity College supports 1,846 students, and 27 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 14 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $9,987. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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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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