2025 Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
6
Colleges in the New England Region
192
Bachelor's Degrees
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 6 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for dental hygiene/hygienist students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 192 bachelor's degrees in dental hygiene/hygienist to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Dental Hygiene/Hygienist School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The dental hygiene bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality dental hygiene program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 schools for dental hygiene/hygienist students working on their bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The dental hygiene school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region.
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