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

2 Ranked Colleges
14 Degrees Awarded
$27,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master's in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 668 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dental hygiene/hygienist. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent dental hygiene/hygienist 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 dental hygiene/hygienist program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist (Income $48-$75k) in the Plains States Region

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a large public school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 11 masters’s dental hygiene degrees in 2019-2020.

UMN Twin Cities also took the #1 spot in our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UMN Twin Cities are $28,845.

Read more about Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Kansas City. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. University of Missouri - Kansas City is a fairly large school located in Kansas City, Missouri that handed out 3 masters’s dental hygiene degrees in 2019-2020.

UMKC also took the #0 spot in our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Missouri - Kansas City are $26,699, 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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