2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Acting for an Associate
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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. 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 the Southwest Region for Acting for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 1,793 people earned their degree in acting, making the major the 323rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 117 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 22 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality acting programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the acting program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The acting school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Acting for an Associate”.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Acting for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree vets studying acting.
Top 1 Best Acting Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Acting for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts landed the #1 spot on the list. KD Conservatory is a private for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 22 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
KD Conservatory not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Among the 71 students enrolled at KD Conservatory, 16 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 11 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $12,296. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts Veteran Student Life Report
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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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