2023 Most Veteran Friendly in West Virginia for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
19
Degrees Awarded
$21,700
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in West Virginia for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Visual & Performing Arts is the 221st most popular major in the country with 3,130 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across West Virginia, there were 23 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,642 and $26,170 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality visual and performing arts programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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The visual arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in West Virginia for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s”.
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Most Veteran Friendly in West Virginia for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in West Virginia for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marshall University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in West Virginia for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Huntington, West Virginia, this fairly large public school handed out 19 degrees to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Marshall University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” ranking.Of the 11,958 students enrolled at Marshall University, 406 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 128 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $3,840. During this same period, 10 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Marshall University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Marshall University]](/colleges/marshall-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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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