You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Humanities for a Master’s. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 125 diplomas to qualified masters’s humanities students in 2020-2021.
UChicago also made our “Best Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #1.Of the 17,834 students enrolled at UChicago, 241 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 113 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,948. On top of their other funding sources, 58 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default 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. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UChicago]](/colleges/university-of-chicago/student-life/veterans/)