2023 Best General Human Development & Family Studies Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. 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 Human Development and Family Studies for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Human Development & Family Studies is the 88th most popular major in the country with 9,497 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 292 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general human development and family studies 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 general human development and family studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Human Development and Family Studies for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Human Development and Family Studies for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best General Human Development & Family Studies Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Human Development and Family Studies for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Central New Mexico Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. CNM is a fairly large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 53 associates’s human development and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.
CNM also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Associate Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Central New Mexico Community College supports 21,398 students, and 839 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 390 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,171. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Central New Mexico Community College does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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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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