2023 Best Other Economics Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Economics for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Other Economics is the 687th most popular major in the country with 315 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Economics for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other economics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other economics programs, but they also offer a lot of support to 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 other economics program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Economics for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Other Economics for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree vets studying other economics.

Top 2 Best Other Economics Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

Wright State University - Main Campus
Dayton, Ohio

731 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Other Economics for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Wright State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Dayton, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other economics degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.

Wright State University - Main Campus also took the #2 spot in our “Best Other Economics Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Wright State University - Main Campus supports 10,936 students, and 731 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 419 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,623. During this same period, 4 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Wright State University - Main Campus]](/colleges/wright-state-university-main-campus/student-life/veterans/)

2

Teachers College at Columbia University
New York, New York

30 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$19,966 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Teachers College at Columbia University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Other Economics for a Master’s. This small school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 37 masters’s other economics degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Teachers College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Other Economics Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 30 of the 4,547 students enrolled at Teachers College at Columbia University were GI Bill® students, of which 15 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $19,966. To help with additional expenses, 7 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Teachers College at Columbia University Veteran Student Life Report

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.

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