2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Voice for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$36,700
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Voice for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Voice Performance is the 528th most popular major in the country with 656 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 55 voice performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Voice for a Master’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in voice performance. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent voice 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 voice performance program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The voice 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 Voice for a Master’s”.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Voice for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Voice for a Master’s”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Voice for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #1 spot on the list. Fort Worth, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s voice degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
TCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Voice Performance Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 520 of the 11,379 students enrolled at Texas Christian University were GI Bill® students, of which 405 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $23,096. In addition to receiving other benefits, 343 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at TCU]](/colleges/texas-christian-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Voice for a Master’s list. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this fairly large public school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s voice students in 2020-2021.
UCO not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Voice Performance Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Among the 14,132 students enrolled at UCO, 934 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 428 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,062. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Voice for a Master’s. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 4 masters’s voice degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at SMU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Voice Performance Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, SMU supports 12,373 students, and 327 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 215 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,612. To help with additional expenses, 103 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Voice for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rice University landed the #4 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s voice degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
Rice also took the #1 spot in our “Best Voice Performance Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Of the 7,643 students enrolled at Rice, 157 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 80 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,656. To help with additional expenses, 68 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. 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 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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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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