2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Religion for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
54
Degrees Awarded
$34,800
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Religion for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 3,626 people earned their degree in religion/religious studies, making the major the 189th most popular in the United States.
Across Massachusetts, there were 88 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,029 and $25,475 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality religion/religious studies programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the religion/religious studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The religion school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Religion for a Bachelor’s”.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Religion for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts bachelor’s degree vets studying religion.
Top 1 Best Religion/Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Massachusetts
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 Religion for a Bachelor’s list. College of the Holy Cross is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Worcester, Massachusetts. It awarded 4 bachelors’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.
Holy Cross not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Religion/Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list.Of the 2,970 students enrolled at College of the Holy Cross, 25 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 15 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $22,544. In addition to receiving other benefits, 12 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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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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