2023 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Texas
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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 Texas for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Community Health and Preventive Medicine is the 281st most popular major in the country with 2,272 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Texas, there were 11 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great community health and preventive 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 community health and preventive medicine 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 Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Texas
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Incarnate Word. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Community Health and Preventive Medicine for a Bachelor’s list. University of the Incarnate Word is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in San Antonio, Texas. It awarded 11 bachelors’s community health and preventive medicine degrees in 2020-2021.
UIW also took the #1 spot in our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1,174 of the 7,917 students enrolled at UIW were GI Bill® students, of which 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. In addition to receiving other benefits, 87 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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 UIW]](/colleges/university-of-the-incarnate-word/student-life/veterans/)
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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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