2023 Best Ground Transportation Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
125
Degrees Awarded
$12,000
Avg Student Debt
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly for Ground Transport for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 17,893 people earned their degree in ground transportation, making the major the 330th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, ground transportation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,911 and had an average of $7,890 in loans still to pay off.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 125 ground transportation graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality ground transportation programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the ground transportation program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Ground Transport for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Ground Transport for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Ground Transportation Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson County Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Ground Transport for an Associate list. JCCC is a fairly large school located in Overland Park, Kansas that handed out 3 associates’s ground transport degrees in 2020-2021.
JCCC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Ground Transportation Associate Degree Schools” ranking.Among the 13,891 students enrolled at JCCC, 389 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 221 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,331. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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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