2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Michigan for Wielding for an Associate
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Michigan for Wielding for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 42,490 people earned their degree in welding technology/welder, making the major the 215th most popular in the United States.
Across Michigan, there were 487 welding technology/welder graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 134 welding technology/welder graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,608 and $18,344 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality welding technology/welder programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the welding technology/welder 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 Michigan for Wielding for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Michigan for Wielding for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Welding Technology/Welder Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Michigan
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Rapids Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Michigan for Wielding for an Associate list. Grand Rapids, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s wielding degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.
Grand Rapids Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Welding Technology/Welder Associate Degree Schools in Michigan” list.According to our most recent data, Grand Rapids Community College supports 12,107 students, and 3 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,334. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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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