2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Minnesota for Medical Illustration for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 in Minnesota for Medical Illustration for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Medical Illustration & Informatics is the 193rd most popular major in the country with 2,089 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, medical illustration and informatics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,135 and had an average of $32,175 in loans still to pay off.

Across Minnesota, there were 240 medical illustration and informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,230 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Minnesota for Medical Illustration for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in medical illustration and informatics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality medical illustration and informatics 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 medical illustration and informatics program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Minnesota for Medical Illustration for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Minnesota for Medical Illustration for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Medical Illustration & Informatics Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Minnesota

1

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

2,589 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$6,867 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Capella University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Minnesota for Medical Illustration for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it awarded 185 masters’s medical illustration degrees in 2020-2021.

Capella University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Medical Illustration & Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” list.Our most recent data shows that 2,589 of the 38,930 students enrolled at Capella University were GI Bill® students, of which 1,685 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,867. In addition to receiving other benefits, 4 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

Full Capella University Veteran Student Life Report

2

St Catherine University
Saint Paul, Minnesota

55 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$9,157 Average GI Bill® Award

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Minnesota for Medical Illustration for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, St Catherine University landed the #2 spot on the list. St. Kate’s is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

St. Kate’s also made our “Best Medical Illustration & Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” list, coming in at #2.Our most recent data shows that 55 of the 4,277 students enrolled at St Catherine University were GI Bill® students, of which 26 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $9,157. On top of their other funding sources, 2 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%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at St Catherine University]](/colleges/st-catherine-university/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Medical Illustration & Informatics Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Plains States Region
• Best Medical Illustration & Informatics Master’s Degree Colleges for 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.