2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Support Services in the Far Western US 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 Support Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 26,399 people earned their degree in dental support services, making the major the 82nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, dental support services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,442 and had an average of $15,159 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 5,790 dental support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,059 and $14,633 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 dental support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Support Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in dental support services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in dental support services.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Support Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Support Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Support Services in the Far Western US Region

1

Eastern Washington University
Cheney, Washington

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Support Major 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 handed out 10 degrees to qualified masters’s dental support students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Dental Support Services at Eastern Washington University

2

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#4 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Support Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Southern California is a large school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 30 masters’s dental support degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Dental Support Services at University of Southern California

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University of California - San Francisco
San Francisco, California

#19 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Francisco. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dental Support Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of California - San Francisco is a small public school situated in San Francisco, California. It awarded 0 masters’s dental support degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UCSF Dental Support Services Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Dental Support Services

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.