2023 Best Pre-Law Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Pre-Law for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 586 people earned their degree in pre-law, making the major the 576th most popular in the United States.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 91 pre-law graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Pre-Law for an Associate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in pre-law. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great pre-law programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the pre-law program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 Pre-Law for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Pre-Law for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree vets studying pre-law.
Top 2 Best Pre-Law Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central New Mexico Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Pre-Law for an Associate. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s pre-law degrees to 34 students in 2020-2021.
CNM also took the #1 spot in our “Best Pre-Law Associate Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, CNM 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. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Humphreys University - Stockton and Modesto Campuses. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Pre-Law for an Associate list. Humphreys University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Stockton, California. It awarded 10 associates’s pre-law degrees in 2020-2021.
Humphreys University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Pre-Law Associate Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Humphreys University - Stockton and Modesto Campuses supports 401 students, and 13 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 7 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,202. During this same period, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Humphreys University - Stockton and Modesto Campuses]](/colleges/humphreys-college-stockton-and-modesto-campuses/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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