2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Lay Ministry for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
56
Degrees Awarded
$19,600
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 in the Great Lakes Region for Lay Ministry for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Lay Ministry is the 630th most popular major in the country with 504 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 147 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 56 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality lay ministry programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the lay ministry program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Lay Ministry for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree vets studying lay ministry.
Top 1 Best Lay Ministry Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grace Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Lay Ministry for an Associate list. Located in Wyoming, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 37 degrees to qualified associates’s lay ministry students in 2020-2021.
Grace did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Lay Ministry Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.According to our most recent data, Grace supports 1,052 students, and 101 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 61 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,478. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Grace]](/colleges/grace-bible-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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