2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Social Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
43
Degrees Awarded
$42,900
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 for Social Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Social Entrepreneurship is the 1111th most popular major in the country with 48 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 social entrepreneurship graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Social Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in social entrepreneurship. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great social entrepreneurship programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the social entrepreneurship program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Social Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Social Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Social Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Social Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rollins College landed the #1 spot on the list. Rollins is a private not-for-profit institution located in Winter Park, Florida. The school has a small population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Rollins also took the #1 spot in our “Best Social Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 122 of the 3,104 students enrolled at Rollins College were GI Bill® students, of which 65 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $14,791. To help with additional expenses, 45 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. 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%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Social Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Vermont landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Vermont is a fairly large school located in Burlington, Vermont that handed out 25 bachelors’s social entrepreneurship degrees in 2020-2021.
UVM also took the #2 spot in our “Best Social Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 218 of the 13,292 students enrolled at University of Vermont were GI Bill® students, of which 142 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,767. In addition to receiving other benefits, 19 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
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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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