2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 8,807 people earned their degree in dental hygiene/hygienist, making the major the 98th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 703 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dental hygiene/hygienist. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in dental hygiene/hygienist.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist in the Plains States Region

1

University of Missouri - Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Kansas City. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Missouri - Kansas City is a public institution located in Kansas City, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at UMKC

2

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#4 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Hygiene Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified masters’s dental hygiene students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UMN Twin Cities Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Report

• 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.