2024 Best Value Housing Schools in Missouri
2
Ranked Colleges
66
Degrees Awarded
$16,600
Avg Net Price*
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Housing Schools in Missouri” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Housing is the 316th most popular major in the country with 302 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, housing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,369 and had an average of $23,582 in loans still to pay off.
Across Missouri, there were 66 housing graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,251 and $25,228 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Housing Schools in Missouri” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in housing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great housing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the housing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
More Ways to Rank Housing Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Housing Schools in Missouri” list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to College Factual’s rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
Best Value Housing Schools in Missouri
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Housing Schools in Missouri.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Housing in Missouri
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Housing Schools in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. Mizzou is a large school located in Columbia, Missouri that handed out 38 ’s housing degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mizzou, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Housing Schools in Missouri” ranking. It costs about $16,559 for missouri housing students per year to attend Mizzou.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full University of Missouri - Columbia Housing Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri State University - Springfield. It ranked #2 on our 2024 Best Value Housing Schools in Missouri list. Located in Springfield, Missouri, this large public school handed out 28 degrees to qualified ’s housing students in 2020-2021.
Missouri State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Housing Schools in Missouri” list. It costs about $16,718 for Missouri Housing students per year to attend Missouri State University - Springfield.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 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
- *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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