2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Woodwind Instruments
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$31,300
Avg Cost*
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 the Southwest Region for Woodwind Instruments” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 110 people earned their degree in woodwind instruments, making the major the 963rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 7 woodwind instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality woodwind instruments programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the woodwind instruments program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Woodwind Instruments” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Woodwind Instruments
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Woodwind Instruments”.
Top 1 Best Woodwind Instruments Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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 Woodwind Instruments. Rice University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 7 ’s woodwind instruments degrees in 2020-2021.
Rice also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 157 of the 7,643 students enrolled at Rice University were GI Bill® students, of which 80 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,656. On top of their other funding sources, 68 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Rice]](/colleges/rice-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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