2023 Best Radio, Television & Digital Communication Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Arkansas

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Digital Communication for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Radio, Television & Digital Communication is the 61st most popular major in the country with 17,669 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, radio, television and digital communication graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,775 and had an average of $24,244 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 176 radio, television and digital communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,810 and $19,125 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 39 radio, television and digital communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,130 and $24,615 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Digital Communication for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in radio, television and digital communication. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent radio, television and digital communication programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the radio, television and digital communication program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Digital Communication for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for arkansas bachelor’s degree vets studying digital communication.

Top 2 Best Radio, Television & Digital Communication Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Arkansas

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Arkansas State University - Main Campus
Jonesboro, Arkansas

425 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Digital Communication for a Bachelor’s. Jonesboro, Arkansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s digital communication degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.

A-State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Radio, Television & Digital Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list.According to our most recent data, A-State supports 13,106 students, and 425 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 180 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,131. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for 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%.

Full Arkansas State University - Main Campus Veteran Student Life Report

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Harding University
Searcy, Arkansas

3 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$5,932 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harding University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Arkansas for Digital Communication for a Bachelor’s. Searcy, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s digital communication degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Harding, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Radio, Television & Digital Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 3 of the 4,617 students enrolled at Harding University were GI Bill® students, of which 2 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,932. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Harding University offers 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

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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

Footnotes

• *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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