2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pre-Dentistry Studies in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Dentistry Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Pre-Dentistry Studies is the 1038th most popular major in the country with 85 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 13 pre-dentistry studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 pre-dentistry studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Dentistry Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in pre-dentistry studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their pre-dentistry studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Dentistry Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree pre-dentistry studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pre-Dentistry Studies in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio

Top 10% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Dayton. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Dentistry Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. UDayton is a fairly large school located in Dayton, Ohio that handed out 5 bachelors’s pre-dentistry studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Pre-Dentistry Studies at UDayton

2

Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Dentistry Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Muncie, Indiana, this large public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s pre-dentistry studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Pre-Dentistry Studies at Ball State

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pre-Dentistry Studies

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.