2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family Practice Nursing for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
44
Degrees Awarded
$32,700
Avg Cost*

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family Practice Nursing for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing is the 52nd most popular major in the country with 16,104 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 798 family practice nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 family practice nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family practice nurse/nursing 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 family practice nurse/nursing program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family Practice Nursing for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree vets studying family practice nursing.
Top 1 Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Simmons University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region 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 in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 239 of the 6,263 students enrolled at Simmons were GI Bill® students, of which 143 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $13,906. In addition to receiving other benefits, 20 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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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