2025 Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Associate Degree Schools in Idaho
3Colleges in Idaho
73Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in dental hygiene/hygienist, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #24 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Associate Degree Schools in Idaho ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 73 associate degrees in dental hygiene/hygienist during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Dental Hygiene/Hygienist School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of dental hygiene/hygienist for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on dental hygiene/hygienist students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of dental hygiene/hygienist students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
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 associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Associate Degree Schools in Idaho list to help you make the college decision.
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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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of dental hygiene/hygienist for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
