2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Product Design 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 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 Product Design for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Industrial Design is the 304th most popular major in the country with 1,792 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 30 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great industrial design 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 industrial design program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Product Design for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Product Design for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Product Design for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Industrial Design Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Product Design for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, LaGuardia Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Long Island City, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s product design degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
LaGuardia did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Industrial Design Associate Degree Schools” list.Of the 16,971 students enrolled at LaGuardia, 194 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 141 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $3,150. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through 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 LaGuardia Community College]](/colleges/cuny-laguardia-community-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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