2023 Best Plumbing & Water Supply Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Plumbing” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Plumbing & Water Supply is the 310th most popular major in the country with 2,617 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, plumbing and water supply graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $39,858 and had an average of $8,408 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 140 plumbing and water supply graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality plumbing and water supply programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the plumbing and water supply program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 in the Southwest Region for Plumbing” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Plumbing
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region vets studying plumbing.
Top 1 Best Plumbing & Water Supply Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central New Mexico Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Plumbing. Central New Mexico Community College is a fairly large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 12 ’s plumbing degrees in 2020-2021.
CNM also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.According to our most recent data, CNM supports 21,398 students, and 839 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 390 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,171. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
Full Central New Mexico Community College 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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