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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Other Visual & Performing Arts is the 465th most popular major in the country with 912 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 199 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 75 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other visual and performing arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other visual and performing arts programs and a strong support system for 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 other visual and performing arts program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Florida - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s. USF Tampa is a large public school situated in Tampa, Florida. It awarded 15 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
USF Tampa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Among the 50,626 students enrolled at University of South Florida - Main Campus, 2,211 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 1,241 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,943. In addition to receiving other benefits, 13 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the #2 spot on the list. Duke University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Durham, North Carolina. It awarded 12 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying other visual & performing arts list, Duke has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Of the 16,172 students enrolled at Duke, 36 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 9 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,387. To help with additional expenses, 8 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Duke]](/colleges/duke-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s list. Clemson is a public institution located in Clemson, South Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Clemson also made our “Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2.Of the 26,406 students enrolled at Clemson, 922 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 429 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,920. During this same period, 15 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Clemson does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Clemson]](/colleges/clemson-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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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