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2022 Best Value Dentistry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
512 Degrees Awarded
$19,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Dentistry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting 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 Dentistry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Dentistry is the 108th most popular major in the country with 6,614 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, dentistry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $98,613 and had an average of $247,099 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 512 dentistry graduates with average earnings and debt of $103,840 and $194,398 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent dentistry programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the dentistry program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 Dentistry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Dentistry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Dentistry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Dentistry in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Dentistry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Texas A&M College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 100 ’s dentistry degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas A&M College Station, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Dentistry Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M College Station is $19,057 for Southwest Region Dentistry students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Dentistry at Texas A&M University - College Station

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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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