You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cornell University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Other Social Sciences for a Doctorate. Located in Ithaca, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s other social sciences students in 2020-2021.
Cornell also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Social Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking.According to our most recent data, Cornell University supports 23,620 students, and 2 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 2 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,780. In addition to receiving other benefits, 2 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Cornell]](/colleges/cornell-university/student-life/veterans/)