2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Business Communications for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 Business Communications for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Business/Corporate Communications is the 240th most popular major in the country with 1,029 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, business/corporate communications graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $41,185 and had an average of $26,322 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 43 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,832 and $25,375 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Business Communications for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in business/corporate communications. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great business/corporate communications 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 business/corporate communications program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Business Communications for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Business Communications for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Best Business/Corporate Communications Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

1

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

1,382 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Business Communications for a Bachelor’s. Located in Houston, Texas, this large public school awarded 31 degrees to qualified bachelors’s business communications students in 2020-2021.

UH not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Business/Corporate Communications Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Among the 47,090 students enrolled at UH, 1,382 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 730 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,264. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at UH]](/colleges/university-of-houston/student-life/veterans/)

2

Stephen F Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas

427 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$7,500 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stephen F Austin State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Business Communications for a Bachelor’s. Nacogdoches, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s business communications degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree vets studying business communications list, SFASU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Business/Corporate Communications Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Of the 12,620 students enrolled at SFASU, 427 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 177 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,500. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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• Best Business/Corporate Communications Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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