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2022 Best Schools for the Money (With Aid) in the Plains States Region for Master's Degrees

With all of the options you have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take when you want to pursue a degree. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Master's Degree Colleges for the Money (With Aid) in the Plains States Region ranking is part of that endeavor. You may be surprised that some normally high-priced schools offer very generous financial aid packages to those who qualify.

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Finding Your Best College Match

We analyzed 134 schools across the Plains States Region to determine which have the best value Master's Degree programs. Our ranking methodology focuses on different objective factors to make this determination of the best value schools. We explain more about what we look at and why we do so below.

Our Methodology

To calculate the value of a school in our Best Master's Degree Colleges for the Money (With Aid) in the Plains States Region ranking, we first consider its average net price, which is the sum of room and board, tuition, and fees minus any financial aid that that the student receives. In addition, the overall quality of a school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how much it costs.

To make it into this list a school must offer a quality education like the schools in our Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considers factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

We go into more detail on these factors on our best value ranking methodology page.

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You can scroll down to see the top schools for this ranking, but you may also want to view some of the other ranking methods listed below.

To get a better picture of the best value schools for your income range or for whether or not you'll receive aid, click on one of the tiles above. You may also want to narrow this list by location to find the best value schools nearest you. In addition, we've put together a number of other college rankings that may help you in your search.

Know what field you want to major in? Make sure you check out our best value schools by major. In addition, you can select one of the links below to see the best value colleges for other degree levels.

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Best Value Master's Degree Schools (With Aid) in the Plains States Region

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

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Iowa State University did quite well in the 2022 Best Master's Degree Colleges for the Money (With Aid) in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #8. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. It is a public school.

In addition to being included on this ranking as a good value, Iowa State University is ranked #3 for quality in the state of Iowa.

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Honorable Mentions

These schools also performed well in our Best Master's Degree Colleges for the Money (With Aid) in the Plains States Region ranking:

Rank	College	Location	Value
26	University of Nebraska at Kearney	Kearney, NE	Value Report
27	University of Mary	Bismarck, ND	Value Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 25 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 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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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