You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Stringed Instruments for a Master’s list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 26 masters’s stringed instruments degrees in 2020-2021.
Rice did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Stringed Instruments Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Among the 7,643 students enrolled at Rice University, 157 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 80 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,656. In addition to receiving other benefits, 68 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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