2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Epidemiology for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$35,700
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 Epidemiology for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Epidemiology is the 280th most popular major in the country with 2,305 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 295 epidemiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 epidemiology 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 epidemiology programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the epidemiology program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 Epidemiology 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 Epidemiology for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vets studying epidemiology.
Top 1 Best Epidemiology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Epidemiology for a Bachelor’s list. Indiana University - Bloomington is a large school located in Bloomington, Indiana that handed out 18 bachelors’s epidemiology degrees in 2020-2021.
IU Bloomington not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Epidemiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 43,064 students enrolled at IU Bloomington were GI Bill® students, of which 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $0. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. 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 IU Bloomington]](/colleges/indiana-university-bloomington/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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