2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in Nebraska (With Aid)

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 Elementary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Elementary Education is the 19th most popular major in the country with 40,622 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Nebraska, there were 656 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 75 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,407 and $40,167 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in elementary education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality elementary education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the elementary education 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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Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in Nebraska (With Aid)

#1

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$16,374 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid list. UNOMAHA is a fairly large school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 60 masters’s elementary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

UNOMAHA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Elementary Education Master’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNOMAHA are $16,374, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Elementary Education at University of Nebraska at Omaha

#2

University of Nebraska at Kearney

Kearney, Nebraska

#2 in overall quality

$14,792 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska at Kearney landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Kearney, Nebraska, this medium-sized public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified masters’s elementary teaching students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNK, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Elementary Education Master’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNK are $14,792, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Elementary Education at UNK

#3

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska

$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 #3 for the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s elementary teaching degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Creighton did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Elementary Education Master’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Creighton University are $18,528.

Full Creighton Elementary Education Report

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education (With Aid)

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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