2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Museum Studies for a Master’s

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Museum Studies for a Master’s” ranking.

In 2020-2021, 816 people earned their degree in museum studies, making the major the 275th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, museum studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,570 and had an average of $20,531 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 60 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Museum Studies for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in museum studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great museum studies programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the museum studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Museum Studies for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree vets studying museum studies.

Top 2 Best Museum Studies Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

1

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

1,242 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 Texas Tech University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Museum Studies for a Master’s. Texas Tech University is a public institution located in Lubbock, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Texas Tech not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Museum Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Among the 40,322 students enrolled at Texas Tech University, 1,242 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 630 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,480. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through 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 87%. 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%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Texas Tech University]](/colleges/texas-tech-university/student-life/veterans/)

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Baylor University
Waco, Texas

876 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 Baylor University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Museum Studies for a Master’s. Waco, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s museum studies degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree vets studying museum studies list, Baylor has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Museum Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 876 of the 19,297 students enrolled at Baylor were GI Bill® students, of which 593 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $17,744. On top of their other funding sources, 263 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Baylor does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.

Full Baylor Veteran Student Life Report

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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

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.