2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Finance for a Doctorate
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 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 Illinois for Finance for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Finance is the 11th most popular major in the country with 51,779 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Illinois, there were 1,896 finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality finance programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the finance program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Finance for a Doctorate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Finance for a Doctorate”.
Top 1 Best Finance Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Illinois
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Finance for a Doctorate. Northwestern University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Evanston, Illinois. It awarded 4 doctorate’s finance degrees in 2020-2021.
Northwestern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Finance Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list.Of the 22,603 students enrolled at Northwestern University, 1 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $399. To help with additional expenses, 0 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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%.
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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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