2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Other Visual & Performing Arts is the 465th most popular major in the country with 912 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 69 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other visual and performing arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other visual and performing arts programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other visual and performing arts program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts” list to help you make the college decision.

One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts”.

Top 2 Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region

1

Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

9 GI Bill® Students**

YES Student Veterans Organization

$25,441 Average GI Bill® Award

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s other visual and performing arts degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our new england region vets studying other visual & performing arts list, Northeastern has also earned the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] rank in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Among the 22,905 students enrolled at Northeastern University, 9 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 6 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $25,441. To help with additional expenses, 2 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, 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%.

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

2

Clark University
Worcester, Massachusetts

20 GI Bill® Students**

$10,985 Average GI Bill® Award

$54,506 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clark University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts list. Clark University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 14 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Clark did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] on our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list.According to our most recent data, Clark supports 3,405 students, and 20 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 8 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,985. To help with additional expenses, 4 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read More…

• Best Other Visual & Performing Arts 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.

Credits

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