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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Music Composition for a Doctorate. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s music composition degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
Rice not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Music Theory & Composition Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.According to our most recent data, Rice supports 7,643 students, and 157 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 80 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,656. On top of their other funding sources, 68 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.