2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$34,800
Avg Cost*
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 the New England Region for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling is the 254th most popular major in the country with 5,433 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 253 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great substance abuse/addiction counseling 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 substance abuse/addiction counseling program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree vets studying substance abuse/addiction counseling.
Top 2 Best Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rhode Island College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling for a Bachelor’s. Rhode Island College is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 bachelors’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees to qualified students.
RIC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list.According to our most recent data, Rhode Island College supports 7,072 students, and 206 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 82 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,369. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Rhode Island College 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 Bay Path University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling for a Bachelor’s. Longmeadow, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
Bay Path not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list.Of the 3,224 students enrolled at Bay Path University, 63 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 35 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $9,880. During this same period, 0 students qualified for 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%.
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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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