2023 Best Curriculum & Instruction Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Curriculum for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 19,832 people earned their degree in curriculum and instruction, making the major the 55th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, curriculum and instruction graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $50,993 and had an average of $28,557 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 curriculum and instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Curriculum for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in curriculum and instruction. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality curriculum and instruction programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the curriculum and instruction program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Curriculum for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Curriculum for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Best Curriculum & Instruction Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

2 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Akron Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Curriculum for a Bachelor’s list. Akron, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s curriculum degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.

University of Akron Main Campus not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Curriculum & Instruction Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.Among the 16,094 students enrolled at University of Akron Main Campus, 2 are 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 $3,240. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

Full University of Akron Main Campus Veteran Student Life Report

2

Lasell University
Newton, Massachusetts

58 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$8,225 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lasell University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Curriculum for a Bachelor’s. Lasell is a small school located in Newton, Massachusetts that handed out 5 bachelors’s curriculum degrees in 2020-2021.

Lasell also took the #2 spot in our “Best Curriculum & Instruction Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Of the 1,951 students enrolled at Lasell University, 58 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 29 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,225. On top of their other funding sources, 8 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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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

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.

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