2023 Most Focused 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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Dental Hygiene/Hygienist is the 98th most popular major in the country with 8,807 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,929 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in dental hygiene/hygienist. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in dental hygiene/hygienist.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist in the Southeast Region

1

West Liberty University
West Liberty, West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Liberty University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Southeast Region list. West Liberty University is located in West Liberty, West Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s dental hygiene degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at West Liberty University

2

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Old Dominion University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Southeast Region list. Old Dominion is located in Norfolk, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 36 masters’s dental hygiene degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Old Dominion

3

West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Morgantown, West Virginia, and it awarded 2 masters’s dental hygiene degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at West Virginia University

• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.