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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Health Professions for a Bachelor’s list. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree vets studying health professions list, SMU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 327 of the 12,373 students enrolled at SMU were GI Bill® students, of which 215 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $15,612. During this same period, 103 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. SMU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at SMU]](/colleges/southern-methodist-university/student-life/veterans/)
