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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 Texas 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 Texas, there were 33 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent family and community services 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 family and community services program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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 Texas for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Lubbock, Texas, this large public school awarded 23 degrees to qualified bachelors’s family and community services students in 2020-2021.
Texas Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1,242 of the 40,322 students enrolled at Texas Tech University were GI Bill® students, of which 630 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,480. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Texas Tech University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Texas Tech]](/colleges/texas-tech-university/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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