2023 Best Advanced General Dentistry Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Advanced General Dentistry for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Advanced General Dentistry is the 1111th most popular major in the country with 210 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Advanced General Dentistry for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in advanced general dentistry. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great advanced general dentistry programs and a strong support system for 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 advanced general dentistry 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 Advanced General Dentistry for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Advanced General Dentistry for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree vets studying advanced general dentistry.

Top 2 Best Advanced General Dentistry Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri

5 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Advanced General Dentistry for a Master’s list. SLU is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 22 masters’s advanced general dentistry degrees in 2020-2021.

SLU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Advanced General Dentistry Master’s Degree Schools” list.According to our most recent data, Saint Louis University supports 12,229 students, and 5 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $25,162. 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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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Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

50 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$10,224 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Advanced General Dentistry for a Master’s list. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 17 masters’s advanced general dentistry degrees to qualified students.

LSU Health - New Orleans also took the #2 spot in our “Best Advanced General Dentistry Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.Among the 2,827 students enrolled at LSU Health - New Orleans, 50 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 26 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,224. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

[Read full report on veteran student life at LSU Health - New Orleans]](/colleges/louisiana-state-university-health-sciences-center-new-orleans/student-life/veterans/)

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.