2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Medical Family Therapy/Therapist is the 1342nd most popular major in the country with 12 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in medical family therapy/therapist. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality medical family therapy/therapist programs as well as strong veteran support.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the medical family therapy/therapist program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist

The colleges and universities below are the best for vets studying medical family therapy/therapist.

Top 2 Best Medical Family Therapy/Therapist Colleges for Veterans

1

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

8 GI Bill® Students**

YES Student Veterans Organization

$11,409 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Carolina University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist. Greenville, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s medical family therapy/therapist degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

ECU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] on our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list.Of the 28,798 students enrolled at East Carolina University, 8 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 4 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $11,409. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

[Read full report on veteran student life at East Carolina University]](/colleges/east-carolina-university/student-life/veterans/)

2

Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri

5 GI Bill® Students**

YES Student Veterans Organization

$25,162 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist list. SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 4 ’s medical family therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our vets studying medical family therapy/therapist list, SLU has also earned the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] rank in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.According to our most recent data, SLU supports 12,229 students, and 5 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $25,162. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. 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%.

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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

Footnotes

• *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.