2023 Best Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maine
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Ranked Colleges
18
Degrees Awarded
$39,300
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Public Health for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Public Health is the 26th most popular major in the country with 40,596 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,158 and had an average of $27,396 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maine, there were 171 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,052 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public health programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the public health program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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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 Maine for Public Health for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Public Health for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Public Health for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maine
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Public Health for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New England landed the #1 spot on the list. UNE is a private not-for-profit institution located in Biddeford, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNE, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 39 of the 7,208 students enrolled at University of New England were GI Bill® students, of which 17 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $11,574. To help with additional expenses, 9 students qualified for 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UNE]](/colleges/university-of-new-england/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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