2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Funeral Direction/Service for an Associate
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Degrees Awarded
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 Funeral Direction/Service for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Funeral Direction/Service is the 831st most popular major in the country with 310 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 127 funeral direction/service graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Funeral Direction/Service for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in funeral direction/service. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great funeral direction/service 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 funeral direction/service program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly for Funeral Direction/Service for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Funeral Direction/Service for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Funeral Direction/Service for an Associate”.
Top 2 Best Funeral Direction/Service Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Funeral Direction/Service for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Washington Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. LWTech is a small school located in Kirkland, Washington that handed out 18 associates’s funeral direction/service degrees in 2020-2021.
LWTech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Funeral Direction/Service Associate Degree Schools” list.According to our most recent data, Lake Washington Institute of Technology supports 3,319 students, and 139 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 106 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,241. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Lake Washington Institute of Technology offers credit for military training for eligible students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Lake Washington Institute of Technology]](/colleges/lake-washington-institute-of-technology/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Milwaukee Area Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Funeral Direction/Service for an Associate. MATC is a fairly large school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that handed out 16 associates’s funeral direction/service degrees in 2020-2021.
MATC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Funeral Direction/Service Associate Degree Schools” list.Of the 12,618 students enrolled at MATC, 333 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 132 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $1,896. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
Full Milwaukee Area Technical College Veteran Student Life Report
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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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