2023 Best Value Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Schools in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking.

Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management is the 461st most popular major in the country with 1,058 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 213 purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Schools in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management students.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management in the Plains States Region

1

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#2 in overall quality

$16,545 Average Net Price

$61,758 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Schools in the Plains States Region. Capella University is a large private for-profit school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 16 ’s purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management degrees in 2020-2021.

Capella University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $16,545 for plains states region purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management students per year to attend Capella University.

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2

Webster University
Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$23,248 Average Net Price

$50,709 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Webster University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Schools in the Plains States Region. Webster is a medium-sized school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 195 ’s purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management degrees in 2020-2021.

Webster also made our “Best Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Webster University is $23,248 for Plains States Region Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• 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.