2023 Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Texas
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Ranked Colleges
27
Degrees Awarded
$45,800
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Health Professions for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Other Health Professions is the 102nd most popular major in the country with 7,984 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,061 and had an average of $24,616 in loans still to pay off.
Across Texas, there were 27 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other health professions programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other health professions program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Texas
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s health professions degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at SMU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking.Among the 12,373 students enrolled at Southern Methodist University, 327 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 215 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $15,612. To help with additional expenses, 103 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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