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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 in New Jersey for Health Information for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Health Information Management is the 251st most popular major in the country with 3,317 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across New Jersey, there were 40 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,273 and $26,463 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Information for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in health information management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality health information management programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the health information management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Information for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey bachelor’s degree vets studying health information.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Information for a Bachelor’s list. Rutgers New Brunswick is located in New Brunswick, New Jersey and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s health information degrees to qualified students.
Rutgers New Brunswick not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Health Information Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list.Of the 50,411 students enrolled at Rutgers New Brunswick, 1 were 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 $3,625. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Rutgers New Brunswick offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Rutgers University - New Brunswick Veteran Student Life Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Information for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Teaneck, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s health information degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at FDU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Health Information Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 48 of the 7,479 students enrolled at FDU were GI Bill® students, of which 32 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $12,737. To help with additional expenses, 14 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. FDU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kean University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Health Information for a Bachelor’s. This fairly large school is located in Union, New Jersey, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s health information degrees in 2020-2021.
Kean also made our “Best Health Information Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list, coming in at #2.According to our most recent data, Kean University supports 14,064 students, and 253 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 131 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $9,357. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Kean University offers credit for military training for eligible students.
Full Kean University Veteran Student Life Report
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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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