2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Military Technologies & Applied Sciences for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
984
Degrees Awarded
$47,282
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Southwest Region for Military Technologies & Applied Sciences for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences is the 38th most popular major in the country with 4,477 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, military technologies and applied sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $61,323 and had an average of $20,911 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,145 military technologies and applied sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,282 and $20,833 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 984 military technologies and applied sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great military technologies and applied sciences programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the military technologies and applied sciences program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Military Technologies & Applied Sciences for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Military Technologies & Applied Sciences for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Military Technologies & Applied Sciences Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cochise County Community College District. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Military Technologies & Applied Sciences for an Associate. Cochise County Community College District is a small public school situated in Sierra Vista, Arizona. It awarded 974 associates’s military technologies and applied sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Cochise College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Military Technologies & Applied Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Cochise County Community College District supports 3,327 students, and 351 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 214 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,216. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Cochise County Community College District offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Cochise County Community College District Veteran Student Life Report
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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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