2023 Best Child Development Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 in the Great Lakes Region for Child Development for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Child Development is the 239th most popular major in the country with 4,641 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 360 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Child Development for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in child development. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent child development 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 child development program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Child Development for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree vets studying child development.
Top 3 Best Child Development Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Child Development for a Master’s list. University of Illinois at Chicago is a large public school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 11 masters’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
UIC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Child Development Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, UIC supports 33,518 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $23,878. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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 3 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Child Development for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Akron Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Akron, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s child development degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
University of Akron Main Campus also took the #3 spot in our “Best Child Development Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Akron Main Campus supports 16,094 students, and 2 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,240. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Erikson Institute. The school came in at #3 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Child Development for a Master’s. Erikson Institute is a small school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 35 masters’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
The Erikson Institute did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Child Development Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 457 students enrolled at The Erikson Institute were GI Bill® students, of which 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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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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