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2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s

5 Ranked Colleges
431 Degrees Awarded
$28,108 Avg Salary
Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor's

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Visual & Performing Arts is the 116th most popular major in the country with 6,355 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,134 and had an average of $26,019 in loans still to pay off.

Across Texas, there were 602 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,108 and $19,352 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 431 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in general visual and performing arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general visual and performing arts programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the general visual and performing arts program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas bachelor’s degree vets studying visual arts.

Top 5 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Texas

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Dallas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s list. UT Dallas is located in Richardson, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 285 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

UT Dallas not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list.Of the 28,669 students enrolled at The University of Texas at Dallas, 752 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 458 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,706. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. 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%.

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Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s list. Texas Tech is a public institution located in Lubbock, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Texas Tech also made our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list, coming in at #4.Among the 40,322 students enrolled at Texas Tech, 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 tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,480. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received funds 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 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #3 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s. The University of Texas at Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 84 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our texas bachelor’s degree vets studying visual arts list, UT Austin has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking.According to our most recent data, The University of Texas at Austin supports 50,476 students, and 7 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $2,893. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full The University of Texas at Austin Veteran Student Life Report

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Rice University
Houston, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #4 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s. Rice University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 26 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Rice also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking.Of the 7,643 students enrolled at Rice, 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. On top of their other funding sources, 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. 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Out of the 5 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Downtown landed the #5 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s visual arts degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our texas bachelor’s degree vets studying visual arts list, UH Downtown has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 20 of the 15,239 students enrolled at UH Downtown were GI Bill® students, of which 20 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $3,002. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. UH Downtown does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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 UH Downtown]](/colleges/university-of-houston-downtown/student-life/veterans/)

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