2023 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Virginia
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Ranked Colleges
196
Degrees Awarded
$39,600
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 2,272 people earned their degree in community health and preventive medicine, making the major the 281st most popular in the United States.
Across Virginia, there were 196 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 196 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality community health and preventive medicine programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the community health and preventive medicine program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 in Virginia for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Virginia
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, George Mason University landed the #1 spot on the list. George Mason University is a large school located in Fairfax, Virginia that handed out 195 bachelors’s community health and preventive medicine degrees in 2020-2021.
GMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list.Our most recent data shows that 2,334 of the 38,541 students enrolled at George Mason University were GI Bill® students, of which 1,583 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,710. To help with additional expenses, 42 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. George Mason University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at George Mason University]](/colleges/george-mason-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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