2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Consumer Science for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$21,262
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 for Consumer Science for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Family & Consumer Sciences is the 168th most popular major in the country with 2,906 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general family and consumer sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,445 and had an average of $27,314 in loans still to pay off.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 83 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general family and consumer sciences programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general family and consumer sciences program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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The consumer science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly for Consumer Science for an Associate”.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Consumer Science for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree vets studying consumer science.
Top 1 Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Joaquin Delta College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Consumer Science for an Associate list. San Joaquin Delta College is a fairly large school located in Stockton, California that handed out 11 associates’s consumer science degrees in 2020-2021.
Delta also made our “Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.Of the 18,224 students enrolled at Delta, 151 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 43 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $812. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Delta does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
Full San Joaquin Delta 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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