2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s
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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 General Operations Research for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Operations Research is the 332nd most popular major in the country with 1,698 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 70 general operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general operations research programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general operations research 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 the Southwest Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree vets studying general operations research.
Top 1 Best General Operations Research Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for General Operations Research for a Master’s list. Rice is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 12 masters’s general operations research degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Rice, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Operations Research Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Of the 7,643 students enrolled at Rice University, 157 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 80 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,656. During this same period, 68 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. 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 Rice]](/colleges/rice-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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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