Dentistry is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #105 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for dentistry students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 224 degrees in dentistry to qualified students.
The dentistry school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Dentistry Schools in Missouri.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the dentistry degrees they offer, see the list below.
A T Still University of Health Sciences is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in dentistry. A T Still University of Health Sciences is a small private not-for-profit university located in the remote town of Kirksville.
After graduating, dentistry degree recipients generally earn an average of $125,712 in their early careers.
Every student pursuing a degree in dentistry has to look into University of Missouri - Kansas City. Located in the city of Kansas City, UMKC is a public university with a large student population.
Graduates who receive their degree from the dentistry program earn about $124,107 in the first couple years of working.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).