2023 Best Health Aide Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 Health Aide for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 430 people earned their degree in health aide, making the major the 1172nd most popular in the United States.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 32 health aide graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent health aide 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 health aide program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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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 for Health Aide for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Health Aide for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree vets studying health aide.
Top 1 Best Health Aide Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Health Aide for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern is a small school located in Mount Gay, West Virginia that handed out 26 associates’s health aide degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our associate degree vets studying health aide list, Southern has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Health Aide Associate Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Southern supports 1,474 students, and 34 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 2 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $2,774. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Southern offers 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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