2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Connecticut for Social Work for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
35
Degrees Awarded
$27,660
Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Connecticut for Social Work for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 58,326 people earned their degree in social work, making the major the 13th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, social work graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,651 and had an average of $26,679 in loans still to pay off.
Across Connecticut, there were 694 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,101 and $22,784 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 35 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,377 and $19,767 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality social work programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the social work program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Connecticut for Social Work for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Connecticut for Social Work for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Social Work Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Connecticut
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Connecticut for Social Work for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Capital Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Capital Community College is a small school located in Hartford, Connecticut that handed out 18 associates’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Capital Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Social Work Associate Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 60 of the 2,715 students enrolled at Capital Community College were GI Bill® students, of which 27 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $2,030. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Capital 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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