Military Times released their ranking of top 75 Best for Veterans Business Schools. Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management is ranked #2 Best Business School for Veterans, highlighting Syracuse University’s enduring commitment to veterans, military connected students, and military family members.
More schools than ever responded to this year’s Military Times survey. Competition was stiff to make the list.
Some of the findings from Military Times’s survey:
- Among respondents this year, the focus on veterans typically starts at the top. Better than four in 10 have a service member, veteran or military spouse in a senior leadership position within the business school. Another four in 10 reported such a senior leader not at the business school but the larger university.
- On average, service members and veterans accounted for a little less than 13 percent of the graduate student population at business schools.
- A graduate degree is typically more expensive than a bachelor’s, and the MBA is no exception. More than 8 in 10 responding schools indicated that their costs exceeded the $250-per-semester-hour cap associated with military tuition assistance in the last school year.
- Costs at a little more than half the schools outpaced veterans’ Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits. But about 7 in 10 such schools participated in the Yellow Ribbon program to help make up the difference, and most — but not all — of these schools made up the full difference for all eligible students, thus insuring they didn’t have to pay tuition out of pocket or through loans.
- More than a third of schools either waive or discount application fees for veterans or service members.
- Three-quarters of business schools told us that their larger university has a veteran or military group, but fewer than one in 10 has a separate such group unique to the business school.
- Nearly six in 10 graduate business programs accept, in at least some cases, recommendations from the American Council on Education on awarding academic credit for military training. But limitations on the acceptance of such credit are common.
- Nearly two-thirds of responding schools require incoming students to take either the Graduate Management Admission Test or the Graduate Record Examination as part of their applications. Only about 8 percent of schools typically waive that requirement for vets, although about a quarter of schools gave vets some sort of admissions preference.