2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation for an Associate
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 90 people earned their degree in wildland/forest firefighting and investigation, making the major the 1150th most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 51 wildland/forest firefighting and investigation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 wildland/forest firefighting and investigation graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,803 and $17,868 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality wildland/forest firefighting and investigation programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the wildland/forest firefighting and investigation program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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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 in the Far Western US Region for Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree vets studying wildland/forest firefighting and investigation.
Top 1 Best Wildl&/Forest Firefighting & Investigation Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Far Western US Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Antelope Valley College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation for an Associate. Antelope Valley College is a fairly large school located in Lancaster, California that handed out 1 associates’s wildland/forest firefighting and investigation degrees in 2020-2021.
Antelope Valley College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Wildl&/Forest Firefighting & Investigation Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list.Among the 12,057 students enrolled at Antelope Valley College, 232 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 116 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $315. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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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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