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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Public Health/Community Nursing for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing is the 316th most popular major in the country with 1,883 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Virginia, there were 35 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public health/community nurse/nursing programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public health/community nurse/nursing program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
The public health/community nursing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Public Health/Community Nursing for a Bachelor’s”.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. 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 following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Public Health/Community Nursing for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bluefield College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Public Health/Community Nursing for a Bachelor’s. Bluefield College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bluefield, Virginia. It awarded 35 bachelors’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
Bluefield College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list.Of the 965 students enrolled at Bluefield College, 38 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 25 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $9,677. On top of their other funding sources, 7 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Bluefield College]](/colleges/bluefield-college/student-life/veterans/)
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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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