You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Master’s. Amherst, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s community health and preventive medicine degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.
UMass Amherst also made our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list, coming in at #1.Of the 31,642 students enrolled at University of Massachusetts Amherst, 477 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 252 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,295. During this same period, 21 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
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