2023 Best Other Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
42
Degrees Awarded
$28,400
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 440 people earned their degree in other social work, making the major the 859th most popular in the United States.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 other social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other social work. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other social work 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 other social work program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Other Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Marquette University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s. Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other social work degrees to 30 students in 2020-2021.
Marquette also made our “Best Other Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.Among the 11,550 students enrolled at Marquette, 140 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 93 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,404. On top of their other funding sources, 30 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Marquette offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Marquette University]](/colleges/marquette-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gallaudet University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Other Social Work for a Bachelor’s list. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s other social work degrees in 2020-2021.
Gallaudet not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Other Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.According to our most recent data, Gallaudet University supports 1,451 students, and 22 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 9 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,773. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Gallaudet Veteran Student Life Report
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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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