2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Other Social Work is the 859th most popular major in the country with 440 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Massachusetts, there were 7 other social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 other social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,029 and $25,475 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Other Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Massachusetts
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #1 spot on the list. Worcester, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other social work degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
Clark not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Other Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list.Our most recent data shows that 20 of the 3,405 students enrolled at Clark were GI Bill® students, of which 8 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,985. During this same period, 4 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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. 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 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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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