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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of the Holy Cross. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Catholic Studies for a Bachelor’s list. Holy Cross is a private not-for-profit institution located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Holy Cross also took the #1 spot in our “Best Catholic Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking.According to our most recent data, Holy Cross supports 2,970 students, and 25 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 15 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $22,544. On top of their other funding sources, 12 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Holy Cross]](/colleges/college-of-the-holy-cross/student-life/veterans/)