2023 Best Health Sciences & Services Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Mississippi
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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 Mississippi for Health Science for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Health Sciences & Services is the 34th most popular major in the country with 35,945 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, health sciences and services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,887 and had an average of $24,736 in loans still to pay off.
Across Mississippi, there were 325 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 269 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,787 and $15,790 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Mississippi for Health Science for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in health sciences and services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality health sciences and services programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health sciences and services program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Mississippi for Health Science for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Mississippi for Health Science for an Associate”.
Top 2 Best Health Sciences & Services Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Mississippi
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Mississippi for Health Science for an Associate. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a medium-sized school located in Perkinston, Mississippi that handed out 259 associates’s health science degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Health Sciences & Services Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking.Among the 8,677 students enrolled at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, 9 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 6 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,350. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Mississippi for Health Science for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Holmes Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Holmes Community College is a small school located in Goodman, Mississippi that handed out 10 associates’s health science degrees in 2020-2021.
Holmes Community College also made our “Best Health Sciences & Services Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi” list, coming in at #2.Among the 5,409 students enrolled at Holmes Community College, 122 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 37 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $1,642. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Holmes Community College offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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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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