2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
42
Degrees Awarded
$33,600
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 Great Lakes Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
Counseling Psychology is the 90th most popular major in the country with 9,463 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,277 counseling psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 counseling psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in counseling psychology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality counseling psychology 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 counseling psychology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vets studying counseling psychology.
Top 2 Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s. UChicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 34 bachelors’s counseling psychology degrees to qualified students.
UChicago did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 241 of the 17,834 students enrolled at UChicago were GI Bill® students, of which 113 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,948. On top of their other funding sources, 58 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 100%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University of Chicago]](/colleges/university-of-chicago/student-life/veterans/)
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornerstone University landed the #2 spot on the list. Cornerstone is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s counseling psychology degrees to qualified students.
Cornerstone did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 61 of the 1,917 students enrolled at Cornerstone University were GI Bill® students, of which 35 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,056. During this same period, 1 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 Cornerstone University]](/colleges/cornerstone-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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