2023 Best Textile & Apparel Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
117
Degrees Awarded
$38,739
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Textile & Apparel Studies is the 161st most popular major in the country with 3,313 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, textile and apparel studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,996 and had an average of $24,229 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 125 textile and apparel studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,739 and $21,775 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 117 textile and apparel studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in textile and apparel studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality textile and apparel studies programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the textile and apparel studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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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 Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Textile & Apparel Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s. The University of Texas at Austin is located in Austin, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 64 bachelors’s textile studies degrees to qualified students.
UT Austin not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Textile & Apparel Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 7 of the 50,476 students enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin were GI Bill® students, of which 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $2,893. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Full The University of Texas at Austin Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Textile Studies for a Bachelor’s. Edmond, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s textile studies degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
UCO not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Textile & Apparel Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.According to our most recent data, University of Central Oklahoma supports 14,132 students, and 934 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 428 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,062. 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.
Full UCO Veteran Student Life Report
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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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