2023 Best Child Development Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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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 has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Child Development for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 4,641 people earned their degree in child development, making the major the 239th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 1,630 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 198 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent child development programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the child development program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Child Development for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Child Development for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Child Development for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Child Development Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas - Pulaski Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Child Development for an Associate. University of Arkansas - Pulaski Technical College is a small school located in North Little Rock, Arkansas that handed out 9 associates’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree vets studying child development list, UA Pulaski Tech has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Child Development Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Of the 4,810 students enrolled at UA Pulaski Tech, 408 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 141 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $2,989. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UA Pulaski Tech]](/colleges/pulaski-technical-college/student-life/veterans/)
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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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