2023 Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Kentucky
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$27,753
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Education for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
General Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 29,810 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,719 and had an average of $23,394 in loans still to pay off.
Across Kentucky, there were 96 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,752 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,941 and $26,734 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general education programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general education 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 Kentucky for Education for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Education for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Education for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Kentucky
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Education for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Berea College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Berea, Kentucky, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s education students in 2020-2021.
Berea also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” ranking.Of the 1,432 students enrolled at Berea, 12 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 2 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,159. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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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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