2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Other Economics for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$37,100
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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Other Economics for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Economics is the 687th most popular major in the country with 315 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 57 other economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 other economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other economics programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the other economics program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Other Economics for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Other Economics for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Other Economics Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Other Economics for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #1 spot on the list. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s other economics degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our great lakes region bachelor’s degree vets studying other economics list, Michigan State has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Other Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.Among the 49,695 students enrolled at Michigan State, 2 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,686. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, 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%.
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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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