2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Legal Professions for a Master’s

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Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Legal Professions for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 15 masters’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

Georgia State also took the #3 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1,873 of the 36,360 students enrolled at Georgia State University were GI Bill® students, of which 662 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,934. On top of their other funding sources, 2 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Georgia State University offers credit for military training for eligible students.

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University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Legal Professions for a Master’s. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 15 degrees to qualified masters’s legal professions students in 2020-2021.

UGA also took the #2 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 9 of the 39,147 students enrolled at UGA were GI Bill® students, of which 3 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,402. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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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Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Legal Professions for a Master’s. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s legal professions degrees to 70 students in 2020-2021.

Emory also took the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking.Among the 13,997 students enrolled at Emory, 1 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $0. To help with additional expenses, 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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Emory University Veteran Student Life Report