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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 Illinois for Media Management for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Arts & Media Management is the 136th most popular major in the country with 4,788 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, arts and media management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,900 and had an average of $25,520 in loans still to pay off.
Across Illinois, there were 259 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,307 and $23,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 154 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Media Management for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in arts and media management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality arts and media management programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the arts and media management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The media management 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 Illinois for Media Management for a Bachelor’s”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree vets studying media management.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia College Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Media Management for a Bachelor’s. Columbia College Chicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 96 bachelors’s media management degrees to qualified students.
Columbia also took the #1 spot in our “Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking.Of the 6,769 students enrolled at Columbia, 140 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 98 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $17,151. During this same period, 25 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Columbia offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Media Management for a Bachelor’s list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s media management degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
DePaul also took the #2 spot in our “Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking.Among the 21,922 students enrolled at DePaul University, 528 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 367 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,957. To help with additional expenses, 101 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. DePaul University 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%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Media Management for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Bradley University landed the #3 spot on the list. Bradley is a medium-sized school located in Peoria, Illinois that handed out 18 bachelors’s media management degrees in 2020-2021.
Bradley also took the #4 spot in our “Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking.Among the 5,855 students enrolled at Bradley University, 96 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 61 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $13,498. During this same period, 7 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Bradley University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate 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%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Media Management for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Millikin University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Decatur, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s media management students in 2020-2021.
Millikin also made our “Best Arts & Media Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #3.Our most recent data shows that 24 of the 1,982 students enrolled at Millikin were GI Bill® students, of which 20 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,013. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Millikin offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 Millikin]](/colleges/millikin-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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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