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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 2,526 people earned their degree in community health services/liaison/counseling, making the major the 273rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 221 community health services/liaison/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 119 community health services/liaison/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in community health services/liaison/counseling. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great community health services/liaison/counseling programs and a strong support system for 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 community health services/liaison/counseling program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree vets studying community health services/liaison/counseling.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. UPenn is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 80 bachelors’s community health services/liaison/counseling degrees to qualified students.
UPenn also took the #1 spot in our “Best Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, UPenn supports 26,552 students, and 324 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 131 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $19,383. During this same period, 78 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University of Pennsylvania]](/colleges/university-of-pennsylvania/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend William Paterson University of New Jersey. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling for a Bachelor’s. William Paterson University is a public institution located in Wayne, New Jersey. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree vets studying community health services/liaison/counseling list, William Paterson University has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 133 of the 9,635 students enrolled at William Paterson University were GI Bill® students, of which 69 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,535. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. William Paterson University offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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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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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