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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,593 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great dental hygiene/hygienist programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the dental hygiene/hygienist program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Southeast 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 Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree dental hygiene students.

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

#1

Old Dominion University

Norfolk, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$33,288 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Old Dominion University landed the #1 spot on the list. Old Dominion is located in Norfolk, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 masters’s dental hygiene degrees to qualified students.

Old Dominion did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Old Dominion are $33,288.

Read full report on Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Old Dominion

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist

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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