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2022 Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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241 Degrees Awarded
Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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 Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Dental Hygiene/Hygienist is the 96th most popular major in the country with 6,708 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 778 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 241 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dental hygiene/hygienist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great dental hygiene/hygienist 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 dental hygiene/hygienist program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree dental hygiene students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

#6 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Woman’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Texas Woman’s University is a fairly large public school situated in Denton, Texas. It awarded 30 bachelors’s dental hygiene degrees in 2019-2020.

TWU also took the #6 spot in our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $9,629 for southwest region bachelor’s degree dental hygiene students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend TWU.

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#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s dental hygiene degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M College Station is $18,810 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Dental Hygiene students whose families make $48-$75k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

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#3

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, Arizona
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Arizona University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Northern Arizona University is a large school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 58 bachelors’s dental hygiene degrees in 2019-2020.

NAU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Arizona University is $12,675 for southwest region bachelor’s degree dental hygiene students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#4

Tyler Junior College

Tyler, Texas
#8 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tyler Junior College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Tyler, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s dental hygiene degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree dental hygiene students whose families make $48-$75k list, Tyler Junior College has also earned the #8 rank in our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Tyler Junior College is $11,066 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Dental Hygiene students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#5

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico
#7 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s dental hygiene degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree dental hygiene students whose families make $48-$75k list, UNM has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of New Mexico - Main Campus is $16,557 for southwest region bachelor’s degree dental hygiene students whose families make $48-$75k.

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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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