2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Behavioral Science for a Master’s

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Behavioral Science for a Master’s” ranking.

In 2020-2021, 4,169 people earned their degree in behavioral science, making the major the 141st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, behavioral science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,701 and had an average of $35,804 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 499 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,599 and $27,813 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Behavioral Science for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality behavioral science programs as well as strong veteran support.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the behavioral science program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Behavioral Science for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Behavioral Science for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Behavioral Science Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

324 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Behavioral Science for a Master’s. UPenn is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 64 masters’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region master’s degree vets studying behavioral science list, UPenn has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Behavioral Science Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Pennsylvania supports 26,552 students, and 324 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 131 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $19,383. During this same period, 78 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 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 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 University of Pennsylvania]](/colleges/university-of-pennsylvania/student-life/veterans/)

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University of Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

173 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Behavioral Science for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Baltimore landed the #2 spot on the list. UB is a public institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a small population, and it awarded 33 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

UB also made our “Best Behavioral Science Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2.According to our most recent data, University of Baltimore supports 4,169 students, and 173 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 90 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,002. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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

• Best Behavioral Science Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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

Footnotes

• *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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