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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Mississippi for Music Performance for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Music Performance is the 116th most popular major in the country with 7,335 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Mississippi, there were 28 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,502 and $27,577 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent music performance programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the music performance program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Mississippi for Music Performance for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi bachelor’s degree vets studying music performance.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Belhaven University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Mississippi for Music Performance for a Bachelor’s list. Belhaven is located in Jackson, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
Belhaven did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list.According to our most recent data, Belhaven supports 4,999 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 6 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $2,805. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Belhaven does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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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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