2025 Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene/hygienist, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #118 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for dental hygiene/hygienist students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 30 bachelor's degrees in dental hygiene/hygienist during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to dental hygiene/hygienist students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of dental hygiene/hygienist students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized dental hygiene/hygienist related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for dental hygiene/hygienist students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Dental Hygiene/Hygienist in New York

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene/hygienist.

Top New York Schools for a Bachelor's in Dental Hygiene

1

New York University
New York, NY

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

New York University is a wonderful decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene/hygienist. NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.More information about a bachelor’s in dental hygiene/hygienist from New York University

2

Farmingdale State College
Farmingdale, NY

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Farmingdale State College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene/hygienist. SUNY College of Technology at Farmingdale is a moderately-sized public college located in the suburb of Farmingdale.More information about a bachelor’s in dental hygiene/hygienist from Farmingdale State College

Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	698	54
Maryland	370	14

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Rankings in Majors Related to Dental Hygiene

Dental Hygiene/Hygienist is one of 3 different types of Dental Support Services programs to choose from.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.