{"id":124247,"date":"2026-01-15T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124247\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:36:08","slug":"collin-college-receives-2025-best-for-vets-distinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124247\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin College receives 2025 Best for Vets distinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collin College was named one of the 2025 Best for Vets Colleges by Military Times, making this the 13th year the college has received the distinction. The college was ranked 70 out of 357 colleges and universities across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a distinct privilege to support our veterans and their families by providing excellent accessible education as well as comprehensive resources,\u201d said Neil Matkin, Collin College district president. \u201cWe are grateful to receive this recognition from Military Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Texas, Collin College ranked seventh and was named the top community college in the state for veterans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story see the January 15, 2026 print, or digital edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher.etype.services\/Farmersville-Times\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Farmersville Times. Subscribe<\/a> today and support local journalism in your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin College was named one of the 2025 Best for Vets Colleges by Military Times, making this the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-124247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}