2023 Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 the Southwest Region for Secondary Teaching for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Secondary Education is the 84th most popular major in the country with 10,547 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2,254 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 315 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Secondary Teaching for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in secondary education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality secondary education 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 secondary education program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 in the Southwest Region for Secondary Teaching for an Associate” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Secondary Teaching for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Secondary Teaching for an Associate”.

Top 2 Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

1

Tarrant County College District
Fort Worth, Texas

1,862 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Secondary Teaching for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Tarrant County College District landed the #1 spot on the list. Fort Worth, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s secondary teaching degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.

Tarrant County College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 1,862 of the 43,000 students enrolled at Tarrant County College were GI Bill® students, of which 1,172 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,319. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

Full Tarrant County College District Veteran Student Life Report

2

South Texas College
McAllen, Texas

532 GI Bill® Students**

#3 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Texas College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Secondary Teaching for an Associate. Located in McAllen, Texas, this large public school awarded 73 diplomas to qualified associates’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.

South Texas College also took the #3 spot in our “Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Of the 28,233 students enrolled at South Texas College, 532 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 193 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $1,731. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

Full South Texas College Veteran Student Life Report

• Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans

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

Footnotes

• *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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