2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist for a Doctorate

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist for a Doctorate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 12 people earned their degree in medical family therapy/therapist, making the major the 1342nd most popular in the United States.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in medical family therapy/therapist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great medical family therapy/therapist programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the medical family therapy/therapist program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist for a Doctorate

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

Top 2 Best Medical Family Therapy/Therapist Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

8 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

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 for a Doctorate. ECU is a large public school situated in Greenville, North Carolina. It awarded 4 doctorate’s medical family therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.

ECU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Medical Family Therapy/Therapist Doctor’s Degree Schools” list.Of the 28,798 students enrolled at ECU, 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 Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $11,409. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. ECU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

[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**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Louis University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Medical Family Therapy/Therapist for a Doctorate. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s medical family therapy/therapist degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SLU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Medical Family Therapy/Therapist Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Of the 12,229 students enrolled at SLU, 5 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $25,162. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. SLU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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 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. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

[Read full report on veteran student life at SLU]](/colleges/saint-louis-university-main-campus/student-life/veterans/)

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.