2023 Best Value Dentistry Doctor's Degree Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Dentistry Doctor's Degree School for You
Dentistry is the #16 most popular major in the country with 6,770 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Best Value Dentistry Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. This report analyzed 64 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for dentistry students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Top 10 Best Dentistry Doctor's Degree Schools
Our analysis found Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to be the best value school for dentistry students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the United States. Located in the suburb of Edwardsville, SIUE is a public school with a large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at SIUE are $9,316 per year.
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Out of the 64 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Erie, LECOM is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
LECOM graduate students pay an average of $14,511 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools list. UT Health San Antonio is a small public school located in the large city of San Antonio.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Health San Antonio are $13,448 per year.
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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Western University of Health Sciences helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value dentistry schools in the United States. Located in the suburb of Pomona, Western University of Health Sciences is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Western University of Health Sciences are $22,709 a year.
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Out of the 64 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Creighton University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Creighton is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Omaha.
Creighton graduate students pay an average of $19,096 in tuition and fees each year.
Creighton excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
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Marquette University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the city of Milwaukee, Marquette is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Marquette are $21,960 per year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Marquette also did well on our Best Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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Touro College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Touro is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of New York.
Touro graduate students pay an average of $13,258 in tuition and fees each year.
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Oregon Health & Science University landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree dentistry programs. OHSU is a small public school located in the large city of Portland.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at OHSU are $28,460 per year.
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University of Detroit Mercy ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the large city of Detroit, Detroit Mercy is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.
Detroit Mercy graduate students pay an average of $21,276 in tuition and fees each year.
Detroit Mercy excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
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Texas A&M University - College Station came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Texas A&M College Station graduate students pay an average of $24,106 in tuition and fees each year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Texas A&M College Station also is in the top 5% of our Best Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking.
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These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Value Dentistry Doctor's Degree Schools award.
Rank | College | Location |
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11 | Augusta University | Augusta, GA |
12 | University of Nebraska Medical Center | Omaha, NE |
Dentistry by Region
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Majors Related to Dentistry
One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, dentistry has other similar majors worth exploring.
Dentistry Concentrations
Major | Annual Graduates |
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Dentistry | 6,770 |
Most Popular Majors Related to Dentistry
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Nursing | 322,592 |
Health & Medical Administrative Services | 89,359 |
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services | 84,492 |
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 84,274 |
Allied Health Professions | 82,308 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 26 schools only.
- 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).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Michal Jarmoluk.
More about our data sources and methodologies.