2023 Best Public Finance Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$27,600
Avg Cost*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Public Finance” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 48 people earned their degree in public finance, making the major the 1168th most popular in the United States.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Public Finance” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public finance. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public finance programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public finance program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly for Public Finance” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Public Finance
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Public Finance”.
Top 2 Best Public Finance Colleges for Veterans
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Niagara University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Public Finance. Niagara is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Niagara University, New York. It awarded 20 ’s public finance degrees in 2020-2021.
Niagara not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] on our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list.Our most recent data shows that 114 of the 3,544 students enrolled at Niagara were GI Bill® students, of which 60 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $15,174. During this same period, 20 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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 Niagara University]](/colleges/niagara-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend York College of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Public Finance list. York, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s public finance degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at YCP, the school also landed the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Among the 4,039 students enrolled at York College of Pennsylvania, 135 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 91 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,343. In addition to receiving other benefits, 5 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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