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Austin saluted as America's very best city for veterans

This is one ranking that we can salute.

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This is one ranking that we can certainly salute: Austin has been named the best place in the U.S. for military veterans to live.

For the ranking, personal finance website WalletHub examined 17 key indicators of livability, affordability, and veteran-friendly attitude for the 100 largest cities in the U.S. Those metrics include share of military-skills-related jobs, housing affordability, availability of veterans’ health facilities, and more, which were divided into four broad categories: jobs, economy, quality of life, and health.

Austin scores especially well in three of the four main categories. We rank No. 4 for jobs, No. 5 for economy, No. 8 for quality of life, and No. 24 for health.

Among Texas’ four major metro areas, Houston fares the worst, coming in at No. 59 overall. San Antonio, “Military City USA,” ranks 18th. Dallas is No. 41.

Here are the full rankings for major cities in Texas’ four largest metro areas:

Austin — No. 1. Austin ties for first as the place with the lowest unemployment rate for veterans.
Plano — No. 5. Plano is one of the best places for the lowest percentage of veterans living in poverty (No. 5) but one of the worst places for the growth of veterans’ income (No. 99).
Fort Worth — No. 11. Fort Worth shines in the category covering economic factors (No. 2).
San Antonio — No. 18. The Alamo City lands at No. 7 in the economic category.
Arlington — No. 29. Arlington gets dinged for a low quality-of-life ranking (No. 75).
Irving — No. 32. Irving is one of worst places for military-skills-related jobs (97th).
Dallas — No. 41. Among the four general ranking categories, Big D ranks lowest for quality of life (No. 52).
Garland — No. 44. Garland suffers in the quality-of-life category (82nd).
Houston — No. 59. A low ranking in the employment category (83rd) weighs down the Bayou City.

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UT Austin ranks among best U.S. schools for entrepreneurship in 2025

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The University of Texas at Austin has earned two top-10 spots on The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur’s lists of the best graduate and undergraduate schools for entrepreneurship studies for 2025.

UT Austin's McCombs School of Business ranks seventh in the graduate category, and UT ranks second in the undergraduate category.

The school is no stranger to the prestigious national lists. In the 2024 rankings, UT also appeared as No. 2 among undergraduate programs, and No. 6 in the ranking for the best graduate programs.

This year marks the fourth time that the school has landed in the top 5 on the undergraduate side, and the 12th time in 15 years that McCombs has made the top 10 among graduate programs in the annual ranking, UT notes in a news release.

The only other schools in Texas to make either top-10 list for 2025 were Rice University (No. 1 graduate school) and the University of Houston (No. 1 undergraduate program).

Rankings for The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur’s 2025 lists were based on a survey of administrators at nearly 300 schools in the U.S., Canada, and Europe that offer entrepreneurship studies. Among the more than 40 factors used for the rankings were academic programs, faculty credentials, mentorship opportunities, and alumni entrepreneurship ventures.

"If the focus of the MBA program at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin were to be summed up in one word, it would be 'collaboration,'" reads the 2025 graduate schools report. "Students in more than 20 concentrations uniformly crow over its 'incredibly collaborative culture,' citing the 'supportive culture' as a top reason they ultimately picked the program. As a 'top 20 school,' the 'rigorous academic[s]' and 'focus on clean energy,' 'technology,' and 'entrepreneurship,' are other stand-out elements of the program."

The top 10 schools on the list of 50 best graduate schools for entrepreneurship studies in 2025 are:

1. Rice University
2. University of California-Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
4. Washington University in St. Louis
5. Babson College
6. University of Washington
7. University of Texas at Austin
8. University of Virginia
9. Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands
10. University of South Florida

The top 10 schools on the list of 50 best undergraduate schools for entrepreneurship studies in 2025 are:

1. University of Houston
2. University of Texas at Austin
3. Babson College
4. University of Washington
5. Washington University in St. Louis
6. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
7. University of Maryland-College Park
8. Miami University of Ohio
9. Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico
10. Northeastern University

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The story originally was published on our sister site, InnovationMap.

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