2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Housing & Human Environments for a Master’s

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 for Housing & Human Environments for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Housing & Human Environments is the 846th most popular major in the country with 169 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Housing & Human Environments for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general housing and human environments. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general housing and human environments programs, but they also offer a lot of support to 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 general housing and human environments program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Housing & Human Environments for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Housing & Human Environments for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Housing & Human Environments for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best General Housing & Human Environments Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

9 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Housing & Human Environments for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Athens, Georgia, and it awarded 31 masters’s housing and human environments degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our master’s degree vets studying housing & human environments list, UGA has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Housing & Human Environments Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.Among the 39,147 students enrolled at University of Georgia, 9 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 3 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,402. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. 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 University of Georgia]](/colleges/university-of-georgia/student-life/veterans/)

2

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

1,242 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Housing & Human Environments for a Master’s. Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 masters’s housing and human environments degrees to qualified students.

Texas Tech also made our “Best General Housing & Human Environments Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2.According to our most recent data, Texas Tech University supports 40,322 students, and 1,242 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 630 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,480. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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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.

Credits

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