2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Psychology for a Master’s

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Wisconsin for Psychology for a Master’s” ranking.

General Psychology is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 4th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 141,695 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across Wisconsin, there were 2,258 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Psychology for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general psychology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general psychology programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general psychology program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Psychology for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for wisconsin master’s degree vets studying psychology.

Top 3 Best General Psychology Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Wisconsin

1

Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

140 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marquette University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Psychology for a Master’s list. Marquette University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 10 masters’s psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Marquette did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list.Of the 11,550 students enrolled at Marquette, 140 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 93 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $15,404. During this same period, 30 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, 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%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Marquette University]](/colleges/marquette-university/student-life/veterans/)

2

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

983 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Psychology for a Master’s list. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is a public institution located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 14 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

UWM also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 983 of the 24,565 students enrolled at UWM were GI Bill® students, of which 494 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,519. During this same period, 3 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

Full University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Veteran Student Life Report

3

University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin

450 GI Bill® Students**

#3 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh. The school came in at #3 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Wisconsin for Psychology for a Master’s. University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh is a fairly large school located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin that handed out 8 masters’s psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

UW Oshkosh also took the #3 spot in our “Best General Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” ranking.Of the 15,314 students enrolled at University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, 450 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 219 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,012. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

Full UW Oshkosh Veteran Student Life Report

• Best General Psychology Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
• Best General Psychology 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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