2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
30
Degrees Awarded
$41,600
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 the Great Lakes Region for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Other Social Work is the 859th most popular major in the country with 440 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 55 other social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 other social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other social work programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other social work program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vets studying other social work.
Top 1 Best Other Social Work 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 Social Work for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Marquette University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s other social work degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Marquette, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Other Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.Among the 11,550 students enrolled at Marquette, 140 are 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. On top of their other funding sources, 30 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Marquette offers credit for military training for eligible students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. 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]](/colleges/marquette-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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