2023 Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Health and Wellness for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.
General Health & Wellness is the 141st most popular major in the country with 6,105 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 530 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general health and wellness programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general health and wellness program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Health and Wellness for an Associate” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Health and Wellness for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree vets studying health and wellness.
Top 1 Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Life University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Health and Wellness for an Associate list. Life University is located in Marietta, Georgia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Life, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Among the 2,761 students enrolled at Life University, 95 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 53 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $13,093. On top of their other funding sources, 12 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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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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