2023 Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in New Jersey
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Ranked Colleges
96
Degrees Awarded
$65,547
Avg Salary
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Other Health Professions is the 102nd most popular major in the country with 7,984 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,061 and had an average of $24,616 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Jersey, there were 126 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,547 and $34,150 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 96 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,273 and $26,463 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other health professions. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other health professions programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other health professions program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in New Jersey
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rowan University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Glassboro, New Jersey, this fairly large public school handed out 67 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s health professions students in 2020-2021.
Rowan not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list.According to our most recent data, Rowan supports 19,678 students, and 423 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 221 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,069. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Rowan does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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 Rowan]](/colleges/rowan-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Thomas Edison State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s. Located in Trenton, New Jersey, this medium-sized public school handed out 28 degrees to qualified bachelors’s health professions students in 2020-2021.
TESU also made our “Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list, coming in at #2.Among the 10,495 students enrolled at TESU, 1,326 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1,040 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,949. On top of their other funding sources, 548 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. TESU 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%.
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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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