2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,822 people earned their degree in optometry, making the major the 302nd most popular in the United States.

Across Texas, there were 169 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in optometry. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optometry programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the optometry program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas doctor’s degree vets studying optometry.

Top 2 Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Texas

1

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

1,382 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 105 doctorate’s optometry degrees in 2020-2021.

UH also made our “Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list, coming in at #1.According to our most recent data, UH supports 47,090 students, and 1,382 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 730 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,264. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full UH Veteran Student Life Report

2

University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas

1,174 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Incarnate Word. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate. UIW is a medium-sized school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 64 doctorate’s optometry degrees in 2020-2021.

UIW did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list.Our most recent data shows that 1,174 of the 7,917 students enrolled at University of the Incarnate Word were GI Bill® students, of which 761 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,131. During this same period, 87 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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%.

Full UIW Veteran Student Life Report

• Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
• Best Optometry Doctor’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.