2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Educational Psychology for a Master’s

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Educational Psychology for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,856 people earned their degree in educational psychology, making the major the 309th most popular in the United States.

Across Virginia, there were 80 educational psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Educational Psychology for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in educational psychology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality educational psychology programs as well as strong veteran support.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the educational psychology program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Educational Psychology for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Educational Psychology for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Educational Psychology Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Virginia

1

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

2,334 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$10,710 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Mason University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Educational Psychology for a Master’s. GMU is a public institution located in Fairfax, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

GMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Educational Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list.Of the 38,541 students enrolled at GMU, 2,334 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1,583 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,710. On top of their other funding sources, 42 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

[Read full report on veteran student life at George Mason University]](/colleges/george-mason-university/student-life/veterans/)

2

University of Virginia - Main Campus
Charlottesville, Virginia

3 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Educational Psychology for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Charlottesville, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s educational psychology degrees to 45 students in 2020-2021.

University of Virginia did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Educational Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list.Of the 25,628 students enrolled at University of Virginia, 3 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

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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

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.