2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Family and Community Services for a Doctorate
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With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Southeast Region for Family and Community Services for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 1,401 people earned their degree in family and community services, making the major the 377th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 317 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent family and community services 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 family and community services program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Family and Community Services for a Doctorate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Family and Community Services for a Doctorate
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree vets studying family and community services.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Family and Community Services for a Doctorate list. Clemson is located in Clemson, South Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s family and community services degrees to qualified students.
Clemson also took the #1 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 922 of the 26,406 students enrolled at Clemson were GI Bill® students, of which 429 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,920. On top of their other funding sources, 15 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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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