2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Software Engineering in the Plains States Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 4,123 people earned their degree in software engineering, making the major the 167th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 335 software engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 software engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in software engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in software engineering.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software Engineering Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software Engineering Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Software Engineering in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Fargo, North Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified masters’s computer software engineering students 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%.
Full North Dakota State University Software Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s computer software engineering degrees to 13 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full UMN Twin Cities Software Engineering Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software Engineering Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Cloud State University landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, and it awarded 2 masters’s computer software engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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 Software Engineering at Saint Cloud State University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Software Engineering Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Louis University landed the #4 spot on the list. Saint Louis University is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 masters’s computer software engineering degrees to qualified students.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Read full report on Software Engineering at Saint Louis University
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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
- *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.
