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2022 Best Value Programming Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
44 Degrees Awarded
$24,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Programming Schools for a Master's in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Programming Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Computer Programming is the 121st most popular major in the country with 10,756 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, computer programming graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $45,886 and had an average of $26,222 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 1,065 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,967 and $22,664 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent computer programming 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 computer programming 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 Programming Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Programming Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer Programming in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kansas State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Programming Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. K -State is a large public school situated in Manhattan, Kansas. It awarded 3 masters’s programming degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region master’s degree programming students with aid list, K -State has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Computer Programming Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Kansas State University are $24,115, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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