2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Plains States Region
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2019-2020, 5,658 people earned their degree in real estate, making the major the 163rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, real estate graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $59,476 and had an average of $30,114 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 87 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,650 and $23,671 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 84 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in real estate. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent real estate programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the real estate program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region.
Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Northern Iowa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. UNI is a medium-sized school located in Cedar Falls, Iowa that handed out 38 bachelors’s real estate degrees in 2019-2020.
UNI also made our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for UNI is $15,620 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Cloud State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Saint Cloud, Minnesota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s real estate degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree real estate students list, St. Cloud State University has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $14,267 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students per year to attend St. Cloud State University.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Located in Omaha, Nebraska, this fairly large public school awarded 19 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s real estate students in 2019-2020.
UNOMAHA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $14,040 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students per year to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of St Thomas Minnesota. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Real Estate Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. UST MN is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UST MN, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Real Estate Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $29,155 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Real Estate students per year to attend UST MN.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, 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.
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