You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Cognitive Science for a Bachelor’s. WUSTL is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 52 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
WUSTL did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Cognitive Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list.According to our most recent data, WUSTL supports 15,449 students, and 7 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 14 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,972. In addition to receiving other benefits, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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%.
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