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2023 Best Value Dentistry Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$8,163 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$107,169 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Dentistry School for You

In 2020-2021, 135 degrees and certificates were awarded to dentistry students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #49 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Dentistry Schools in North Carolina ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value programs for dentistry students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Dentistry Schools in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for dentistry majors pursuing a .

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Dentistry

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Our 2023 rankings named East Carolina University the best value school in North Carolina for dentistry students. ECU is a fairly large public school located in the city of Greenville.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ECU are $7,297 per year.

Full Dentistry at East Carolina University Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Dentistry Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the small city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill are $9,028 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UNC Chapel Hill is ranked #2 for overall quality for dentistry in North Carolina.

Read full report on Dentistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Best Value Dentistry Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Dentistry Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 105
Florida 224
Georgia 96
Tennessee 146
Kentucky 186
Louisiana 69
Alabama 78
South Carolina 76
Mississippi 35
West Virginia 46

More Dentistry Rankings in North Carolina

One of 29 majors within the area of study, dentistry has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Dentistry

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 66,964
Medicine 28,629
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Public Health 19,473
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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.

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