2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for an Associate
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Non-Professional General Legal Studies is the 143rd most popular major in the country with 4,407 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, non-professional general legal studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,632 and had an average of $33,872 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 533 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,873 and $33,833 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 55 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great non-professional general legal studies programs and a strong support system for 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 non-professional general legal studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central New Mexico Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for an Associate list. Central New Mexico Community College is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 34 associates’s non-professional general legal studies degrees to qualified students.
CNM also made our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1.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 tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $1,171. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. CNM does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Central New Mexico Community College]](/colleges/central-new-mexico-community-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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