2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Curriculum & Instruction (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Curriculum Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Curriculum & Instruction is the 57th most popular major in the country with 18,195 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, curriculum and instruction graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,708 and had an average of $36,052 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 2,037 curriculum and instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,573 and $31,488 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 curriculum and instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great curriculum and instruction programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the curriculum and instruction program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Curriculum Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Curriculum Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Curriculum & Instruction (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Westminster College Missouri

Fulton, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$17,670 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Curriculum Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Westminster College Missouri landed the #1 spot on the list. Westminster College Missouri is a small school located in Fulton, Missouri that handed out 2 bachelors’s curriculum degrees in 2019-2020.

Westminster Fulton did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Curriculum & Instruction Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $17,670 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Curriculum students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Westminster Fulton.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Curriculum & Instruction at Westminster Fulton

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Curriculum & Instruction (Income $0-$30k)

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.

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