2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist in the Far Western US Region

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 Far Western US Region” 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 Far Western US region, there were 710 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality dental hygiene/hygienist programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist in the Far Western US Region

#1

Eastern Washington University

Cheney, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$28,921 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Cheney, Washington, this fairly large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s dental hygiene students in 2019-2020.

EWU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at EWU are $28,921.

Read more about Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at EWU

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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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