2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Family and Community Services for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Family and Community Services for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Family & Community Services is the 377th most popular major in the country with 1,401 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Kentucky, there were 4 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality family and community services 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 family and community services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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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 Kentucky for Family and Community Services for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Family and Community Services for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Family and Community Services for a Master’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Kentucky University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Kentucky for Family and Community Services for a Master’s. Bowling Green, Kentucky is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s family and community services degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
WKU also made our “Best Family & Community Services Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 847 of the 17,517 students enrolled at WKU were GI Bill® students, of which 345 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,743. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. WKU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at WKU]](/colleges/western-kentucky-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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