2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist in Mississippi (With Aid)

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 “Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Dental Hygiene/Hygienist is the 96th most popular major in the country with 6,708 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Mississippi, there were 86 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,851 and $25,430 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great dental hygiene/hygienist 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 dental hygiene/hygienist program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist in Mississippi (With Aid)

#1

University of Mississippi

University, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$14,016 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Dental Hygiene Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid list. Located in University, Mississippi, this large public school awarded 23 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s dental hygiene students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ole Miss, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. It costs about $14,016 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Dental Hygiene students with aid per year to attend University of Mississippi.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Ole Miss

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist (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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