2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$28,100
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 18,884 people earned their degree in clinical/medical laboratory science, making the major the 93rd most popular in the United States. In , clinical/medical laboratory science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $42,577 and had an average of $17,522 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 1,339 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,350 and $19,029 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in clinical/medical laboratory science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in clinical/medical laboratory science.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree clinical laboratory science students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Plains States Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. Grand Forks, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees to 15 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at UND
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified masters’s clinical laboratory science students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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 more about Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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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%.
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- *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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