2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Public Health for a Doctorate
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$25,800
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 New England Region for General Public Health for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Public Health is the 39th most popular major in the country with 22,778 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 2,111 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Public Health for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general public health. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general public health programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general public health 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 New England Region for General Public Health for a Doctorate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Public Health for a Doctorate”.
Top 2 Best General Public Health Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Public Health for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Yale University landed the #1 spot on the list. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s general public health degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
Yale also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.Among the 12,060 students enrolled at Yale, 1 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,238. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Yale Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for General Public Health for a Doctorate. Harvard University is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 doctorate’s general public health degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Harvard, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.Among the 30,391 students enrolled at Harvard, 304 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 254 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,012. During this same period, 1 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Harvard University]](/colleges/harvard-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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