2025 Best Epidemiology Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
128Epidemiology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in epidemiology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #280 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for epidemiology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 128 degrees in epidemiology to qualified students.
Your choice of epidemiology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for epidemiology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Epidemiology Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Epidemiology in the Plains States Region
The schools below may not offer all types of epidemiology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you wish to pursue a degree in epidemiology. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #45 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were approximately 53 epidemiology students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat University of Iowa if you want to pursue a degree in epidemiology. Iowa is a very large public university located in the city of Iowa City. This university ranks 1st out of 37 colleges for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were roughly 34 epidemiology students who graduated with this degree at Iowa in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Saint Louis University if you wish to pursue a degree in epidemiology. SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Louis. This university ranks 4th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 19 epidemiology students who graduated with this degree at SLU in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of epidemiology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for epidemiology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
