2023 Best Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
30
Degrees Awarded
$30,800
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 in the Southeast Region for Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nursing for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing is the 859th most popular major in the country with 181 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 33 maternal/child health and neonatal nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nursing for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in maternal/child health and neonatal nurse/nursing. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality maternal/child health and neonatal nurse/nursing programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the maternal/child health and neonatal nurse/nursing program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nursing for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree vets studying maternal/child health and neonatal nursing.
Top 2 Best Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nursing for a Master’s. Located in Durham, North Carolina, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 11 degrees to qualified masters’s maternal/child health and neonatal nursing students in 2020-2021.
Duke not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Among the 16,172 students enrolled at Duke, 36 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 9 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,387. During this same period, 8 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Full Duke University Veteran Student Life Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nursing for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 15 masters’s maternal/child health and neonatal nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
Vanderbilt also made our “Best Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2.Our most recent data shows that 13 of the 13,537 students enrolled at Vanderbilt University were GI Bill® students, of which 3 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $17,769. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Vanderbilt University]](/colleges/vanderbilt-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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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