2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in the Plains States Region

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Entrepreneurial Studies is the 120th most popular major in the country with 12,241 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , entrepreneurial studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $43,057 and had an average of $24,574 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 690 entrepreneurial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,188 and $24,369 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 entrepreneurial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in entrepreneurial studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in entrepreneurial studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree entrepreneurship students.

Top 5 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Plains States Region

1

Peru State College
Peru, Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Peru State College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in the Plains States Region list. Peru State is a small school located in Peru, Nebraska that handed out 0 masters’s entrepreneurship degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Entrepreneurial Studies at Peru State College

2

Dickinson State University
Dickinson, North Dakota

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dickinson State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Dickinson, North Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s entrepreneurship degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Entrepreneurial Studies at DSU

4

University of St Thomas Minnesota
Saint Paul, Minnesota

#15 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of St Thomas Minnesota landed the #4 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and it awarded 58 masters’s entrepreneurship degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Entrepreneurial Studies at University of St Thomas Minnesota

4

University of Missouri - Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Kansas City landed the #4 spot on the list. UMKC is located in Kansas City, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 masters’s entrepreneurship degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Entrepreneurial Studies at University of Missouri - Kansas City

Notes and References

References

• 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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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