2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$29,826
Avg Salary
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 Arkansas for Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Entrepreneurial Studies is the 120th most popular major in the country with 11,319 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, entrepreneurial studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,578 and had an average of $25,632 in loans still to pay off.
Across Arkansas, there were 49 entrepreneurial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,826 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 entrepreneurial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,130 and $24,615 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in entrepreneurial studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality entrepreneurial studies programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the entrepreneurial studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for arkansas bachelor’s degree vets studying entrepreneurship.
Top 2 Best Entrepreneurial Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Arkansas
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Arkansas landed the #1 spot on the list. UCA is located in Conway, Arkansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s entrepreneurship degrees to qualified students.
UCA also took the #2 spot in our “Best Entrepreneurial Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking.Of the 10,335 students enrolled at University of Central Arkansas, 528 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 194 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,808. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. University of Central Arkansas does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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 UCA]](/colleges/university-of-central-arkansas/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ouachita Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Entrepreneurship for a Bachelor’s list. Ouachita Baptist University is a small school located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas that handed out 4 bachelors’s entrepreneurship degrees in 2020-2021.
Ouachita Baptist did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Entrepreneurial Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list.Of the 1,704 students enrolled at Ouachita Baptist, 32 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 17 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,900. To help with additional expenses, 8 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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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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