2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine for a Master’s
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With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 1,930 people earned their degree in acupuncture and oriental medicine, making the major the 287th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 112 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great acupuncture and oriental medicine programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the acupuncture and oriental medicine 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 the Southwest Region for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine for a Master’s”.
Top 1 Best Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine for a Master’s. AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine is a small private for-profit school situated in Austin, Texas. It awarded 24 masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees in 2020-2021.
AOMA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.According to our most recent data, AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine supports 135 students, and 13 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 5 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $9,001. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%.
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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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