2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Corrections Major in Virginia
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Corrections Major in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Corrections is the 434th most popular major in the country with 3,042 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Virginia, there were 13 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,646 and $16,841 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Corrections Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in corrections. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their corrections program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Corrections Major in Virginia
The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia associate degree corrections students.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Corrections in Virginia
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Corrections Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Mountain Empire Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. MECC is a public institution located in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Read full report on Corrections at Mountain Empire Community College
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Corrections Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Wytheville Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. WCC is located in Wytheville, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 associates’s corrections degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Wytheville Community College Corrections 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).
- 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.
- 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.