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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
General Visual & Performing Arts is the 116th most popular major in the country with 6,355 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,134 and had an average of $26,019 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 127 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,265 and $28,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 80 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general visual and performing arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general visual and performing arts 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 general visual and performing arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree vets studying visual arts.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s list. UCCS is a fairly large school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado that handed out 56 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
UCCS also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 11 of the 12,380 students enrolled at UCCS were GI Bill® students, of which 8 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,808. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UCCS does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s. This large school is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
U of U also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.Among the 33,081 students enrolled at University of Utah, 1 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. University of Utah does offer 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dixie State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Rocky Mountains Region for Visual Arts for a Bachelor’s list. This fairly large school is located in Saint George, Utah, and it awarded 18 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Dixie State College also made our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #3.According to our most recent data, Dixie State University supports 12,043 students, and 267 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 96 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $2,877. During this same period, 4 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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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