2022 Best Value Research and Development Management Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Research and Development Management Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Research and Development Management is the 831st most popular major in the country with 206 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 24 research and development management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 13 research and development management graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent research and development 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 research and development management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Research and Development Management Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Research and Development Management Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Research and Development Management in the Plains States Region

#1

Fort Hays State University

Hays, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$12,053 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Research and Development Management Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Fort Hays State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Fort Hays State University is a fairly large public school situated in Hays, Kansas. It awarded 13 associates’s research and development management degrees in 2019-2020.

FHSU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Research and Development Management Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend FHSU is $12,053 for plains states region associate degree research and development management students.

Read full report on Research and Development Management at FHSU

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Research and Development Management

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.

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