2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant in the Southwest Region
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Dental Assisting/Assistant is the 327th most popular major in the country with 14,442 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southwest region, there were 2,402 dental assisting/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 71 dental assisting/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dental assisting/assistant. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality dental assisting/assistant programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the dental assisting/assistant program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region.
Top 8 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant in the Southwest Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Grayson College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Denison, Texas, and it awarded 16 associates’s dental assisting degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Grayson College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Grayson College is $7,877 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Dental Assisting students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Del Mar College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. Corpus Christi, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s dental assisting degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.
DMC also made our “Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $5,738 for southwest region associate degree dental assisting students per year to attend DMC.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rio Salado College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s dental assisting degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.
Rio Salado College also made our “Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $9,320 for southwest region associate degree dental assisting students per year to attend Rio Salado College.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend El Paso Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. El Paso, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s dental assisting degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.
El Paso Community College also took the #6 spot in our “Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for El Paso Community College is $4,594 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Dental Assisting students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Phoenix College. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Phoenix College is a medium-sized school located in Phoenix, Arizona that handed out 19 associates’s dental assisting degrees in 2019-2020.
Phoenix College also took the #4 spot in our “Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $8,744 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Dental Assisting students per year to attend Phoenix College.
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Rose State College landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region ranking. Rose State College is a medium-sized school located in Midwest City, Oklahoma that handed out 6 associates’s dental assisting degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree dental assisting students list, RSC has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend RSC is $8,632 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Dental Assisting students.
With a ranking of #7, Santa Fe Community College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this small public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified associates’s dental assisting students in 2019-2020.
SFCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #8 on our “Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $7,020 for southwest region associate degree dental assisting students per year to attend Santa Fe Community College.
San Antonio College ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Dental Assisting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. San Antonio College is a fairly large school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 8 associates’s dental assisting degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at San Antonio College, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for San Antonio College is $5,882 for southwest region associate degree dental assisting students.
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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%.
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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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