2022 Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid

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In 2019-2020, 4,467 people earned their degree in athletic training, making the major the 142nd most popular in the United States.

Across Nebraska, there were 40 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,068 and $24,613 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in athletic training. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent athletic training programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the athletic training program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in Nebraska (With Aid)

#1

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska

#3 in overall quality

$14,040 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Omaha, Nebraska, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s athletic trainer degrees in 2019-2020.

UNOMAHA also made our “Best Athletic Training Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha is $14,040 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Athletic Trainer students with aid.

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#2

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska

#2 in overall quality

$17,208 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s athletic trainer degrees in 2019-2020.

UNL also made our “Best Athletic Training Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend UNL is $17,208 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Athletic Trainer students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

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#3

Nebraska Wesleyan University

Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$23,847 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Nebraska Wesleyan University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid. Lincoln, Nebraska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s athletic trainer degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

NWU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Athletic Training Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for NWU is $23,847 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Athletic Trainer students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 3.8% 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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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in the Plains States Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Athletic Training (With Aid)

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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