2023 Best General Health & Wellness Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$42,600
Avg Cost*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. 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 New England Region for Health and Wellness for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 6,105 people earned their degree in general health and wellness, making the major the 141st most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 316 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general health and wellness 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 general health and wellness program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Health and Wellness for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Health and Wellness for a Master’s”.
Top 1 Best General Health & Wellness Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Merrimack College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Health and Wellness for a Master’s. North Andover, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s health and wellness degrees to 22 students in 2020-2021.
Merrimack also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Health & Wellness Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Merrimack College supports 5,418 students, and 72 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 39 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,794. To help with additional expenses, 11 students received funds through 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%.
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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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