Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nursing for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Pennsylvania is a large school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 219 masters’s perioperative/operating room and surgical nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
UPenn not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Among the 26,552 students enrolled at UPenn, 324 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 131 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $19,383. On top of their other funding sources, 78 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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 freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.