2023 Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 in the Southwest Region for Plumbing for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Plumbing & Water Supply is the 310th most popular major in the country with 2,617 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, plumbing and water supply graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $39,858 and had an average of $8,408 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 140 plumbing and water supply graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 plumbing and water supply graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent plumbing and water supply programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the plumbing and water supply program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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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 in the Southwest Region for Plumbing for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Plumbing for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Plumbing for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Plumbing for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Central New Mexico Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. CNM is a public institution located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
CNM also took the #1 spot in our “Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Among the 21,398 students enrolled at CNM, 839 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 390 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,171. During this same period, 0 students received funds 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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