2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Educational Assessment is the 184th most popular major in the country with 3,853 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , educational assessment graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $55,573 and had an average of $36,314 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 174 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $83,423 and $63,222 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in educational assessment. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in educational assessment.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 7 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in the Plains States Region
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri Western State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Missouri Western is a public institution located in Saint Joseph, Missouri. The school has a small population, and it awarded 15 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Educational Assessment at Missouri Western
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Morningside College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region list. Morningside College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Sioux City, Iowa. It awarded 2 masters’s assessment degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Educational Assessment at Morningside
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 24 masters’s assessment degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Educational Assessment at University of Nebraska - Lincoln
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Iowa. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region. University of Iowa is a large school located in Iowa City, Iowa that handed out 9 masters’s assessment degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.
Full University of Iowa Educational Assessment Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Missouri - Kansas City. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region. This fairly large school is located in Kansas City, Missouri, and it awarded 0 masters’s assessment degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Missouri - Kansas City Educational Assessment Report
North Dakota State University - Main Campus came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region ranking. North Dakota State University is a public institution located in Fargo, North Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Educational Assessment at North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Iowa State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Ames, Iowa, this large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s assessment students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Educational Assessment at Iowa State University
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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
- *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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