2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Financial Math for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
142
Degrees Awarded
$39,600
Avg Cost*
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 Pennsylvania for Financial Math for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Financial Mathematics is the 153rd most popular major in the country with 4,612 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 153 financial mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Financial Math for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in financial mathematics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent financial mathematics 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 financial mathematics program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Financial Math for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree vets studying financial math.
Top 2 Best Financial Mathematics Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Financial Math for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple University landed the #1 spot on the list. Temple is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 masters’s financial math degrees to qualified students.
Temple also took the #2 spot in our “Best Financial Mathematics Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking.Among the 37,236 students enrolled at Temple University, 830 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 510 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $13,479. To help with additional expenses, 9 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Temple University does offer credit for military training for eligible 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Financial Math for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Villanova University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Villanova, Pennsylvania, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 41 degrees to qualified masters’s financial math students in 2020-2021.
Villanova did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Financial Mathematics Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list.Our most recent data shows that 997 of the 11,032 students enrolled at Villanova University were GI Bill® students, of which 824 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,584. During this same period, 41 students received scholarships through 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Villanova]](/colleges/villanova-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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