2023 Best Other History Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$29,800
Avg Cost*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. 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 Southeast Region for Other History for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other History is the 575th most popular major in the country with 527 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 76 other history graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 other history graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other History for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other history. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other history programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other history program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other History for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying other history.
Top 2 Best Other History Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other History for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Bridgewater College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Bridgewater, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other history students in 2020-2021.
Bridgewater did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Other History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 52 of the 1,597 students enrolled at Bridgewater were GI Bill® students, of which 25 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,809. On top of their other funding sources, 19 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 Bridgewater]](/colleges/bridgewater-college/student-life/veterans/)
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other History for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #2 spot on the list. Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s other history degrees to qualified students.
Vanderbilt also made our “Best Other History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1.Among the 13,537 students enrolled at Vanderbilt University, 13 are 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 $17,769. During this same period, 0 students received funds through 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Vanderbilt]](/colleges/vanderbilt-university/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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