2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Food Processing for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
24
Degrees Awarded
$31,300
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Food Processing for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 237 people earned their degree in food processing, making the major the 339th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, food processing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $54,206 and had an average of $24,126 in loans still to pay off.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 24 food processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality food processing programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the food processing program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. 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 Food Processing for an Associate” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Food Processing for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree vets studying food processing.
Top 1 Best Food Processing Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pennsylvania College of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Food Processing for an Associate. This small school is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 5 associates’s food processing degrees in 2020-2021.
Penn College also made our “Best Food Processing Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #.Of the 4,565 students enrolled at Penn College, 289 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 206 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $11,863. During this same period, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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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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