2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Graphic Arts for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Graphic Arts for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Visual Communications is the 154th most popular major in the country with 5,765 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Texas, there were 451 visual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Graphic Arts for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual communications. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality visual communications programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the visual communications program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Graphic Arts for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Graphic Arts for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Visual Communications Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Texas

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

7 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

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 Texas for Graphic Arts for a Master’s. UT Austin is a large public school situated in Austin, Texas. It awarded 23 masters’s graphic arts degrees in 2020-2021.

UT Austin did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Visual Communications Master’s Degree Schools in Texas” list.According to our most recent data, UT Austin supports 50,476 students, and 7 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $2,893. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

2,559 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Texas for Graphic Arts for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas State University is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 12 masters’s graphic arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Texas State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Visual Communications Master’s Degree Schools in Texas” list.Our most recent data shows that 2,559 of the 37,812 students enrolled at Texas State were GI Bill® students, of which 1,197 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,635. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Texas State offers credit for military training for eligible students.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Texas State University]](/colleges/texas-state-university-san-marcos/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Visual Communications Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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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

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.