2023 Best General Special Education Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania
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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Pennsylvania for Teaching Students with Disabilities for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Special Education is the 36th most popular major in the country with 24,497 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 1,437 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general special education programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general special education program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Teaching Students with Disabilities for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Teaching Students with Disabilities for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best General Special Education Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lehigh Carbon Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Teaching Students with Disabilities for an Associate. Schnecksville, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s teaching students with disabilities degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
LCCC also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Special Education Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking.According to our most recent data, LCCC supports 6,205 students, and 129 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 74 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $2,230. During this same period, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. LCCC does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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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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