2022 Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Health & Wellness is the 159th most popular major in the country with 5,006 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 228 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general health and wellness programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general health and wellness program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Plains States Region

#1

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$18,528 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Creighton University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s health and wellness degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

Creighton not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Health & Wellness Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Creighton University are $18,528, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Creighton University

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo.

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