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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Classics for a Bachelor’s. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s classics students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree vets studying classics list, Rice has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Classical & Ancient Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Among the 7,643 students enrolled at Rice University, 157 are 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 qualified for 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 University]](/colleges/rice-university/student-life/veterans/)
