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2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Other Legal Professions

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32 Degrees Awarded
$36,400 Avg Cost*
Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Other Legal Professions

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Rocky Mountains Region for Other Legal Professions” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Professions (Other) is the 200th most popular major in the country with 2,013 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, legal professions (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $51,368 and had an average of $27,963 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 32 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Other Legal Professions” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions (other). This ranking identifies schools with high-quality legal professions (other) programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the legal professions (other) program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Other Legal Professions” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Other Legal Professions”.

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University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Denver. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Other Legal Professions list. University of Denver is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 17 ’s other legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

DU also made our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list, coming in at #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS].Of the 13,856 students enrolled at University of Denver, 571 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 373 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,359. On top of their other funding sources, 155 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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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University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Other Legal Professions list. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s other legal professions degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our rocky mountains region vets studying other legal professions list, U of U has also earned the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] rank in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.According to our most recent data, U of U supports 33,081 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 0 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $0. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. U of U 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at U of U]](/colleges/university-of-utah/student-life/veterans/)

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