2023 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 in the Southwest Region for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 2,272 people earned their degree in community health and preventive medicine, making the major the 281st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 82 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality community health and preventive medicine 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 community health and preventive medicine program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona Western College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for an Associate. AWC is a medium-sized school located in Yuma, Arizona that handed out 2 associates’s community health and preventive medicine degrees in 2020-2021.
AWC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, AWC supports 6,487 students, and 254 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 166 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $1,156. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. AWC offers credit for military training for eligible students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at AWC]](/colleges/arizona-western-college/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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