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Ranked Colleges
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Family & Community Services is the 377th most popular major in the country with 1,401 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 74 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 39 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family and community services programs and a strong support system for 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 family and community services program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Southwest Region for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree vets studying family and community services.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s list. Texas Tech University is a public institution located in Lubbock, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Among the 40,322 students enrolled at Texas Tech, 1,242 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 630 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,480. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Texas Tech offers credit for military training for eligible students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Texas Tech 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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