2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 1,822 people earned their degree in optometry, making the major the 194th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, optometry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $88,635 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across Texas, there were 169 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $91,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in optometry. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent optometry 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 optometry program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas doctor’s degree vets studying optometry.

Top 2 Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Texas

1

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

1,382 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #1 spot on the list. UH is a large school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 105 doctorate’s optometry degrees in 2020-2021.

UH did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list.Of the 47,090 students enrolled at UH, 1,382 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 730 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,264. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UH Veteran Student Life Report

2

University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas

1,174 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Incarnate Word. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Optometry for a Doctorate. This medium-sized school is located in San Antonio, Texas, and it awarded 64 doctorate’s optometry degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIW, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking.Among the 7,917 students enrolled at UIW, 1,174 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 761 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,131. On top of their other funding sources, 87 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UIW offers credit for military training for eligible students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UIW Veteran Student Life Report

• Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
• Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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.