2023 Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
160
Degrees Awarded
$36,400
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 for Family Practice Nursing for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing is the 52nd most popular major in the country with 16,104 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 160 family practice nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Family Practice Nursing for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in family practice nurse/nursing. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality family practice nurse/nursing programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the family practice nurse/nursing program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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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 for Family Practice Nursing for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Family Practice Nursing for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree vets studying family practice nursing.
Top 2 Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Simmons University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Family Practice Nursing for a Bachelor’s list. Simmons is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 44 bachelors’s family practice nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
Simmons also made our “Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2.Among the 6,263 students enrolled at Simmons University, 239 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 143 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $13,906. In addition to receiving other benefits, 20 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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. 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Simmons]](/colleges/simmons-college/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Thomas Jefferson University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Family Practice Nursing for a Bachelor’s list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s family practice nursing degrees to 116 students in 2020-2021.
Thomas Jefferson University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 65 of the 8,286 students enrolled at Thomas Jefferson University were GI Bill® students, of which 42 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,572. To help with additional expenses, 7 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Thomas Jefferson 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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