2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Plains States Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Behavioral Sciences is the 177th most popular major in the country with 4,493 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 564 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 77 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in behavioral sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington University in St Louis. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s behavioral sciences degrees to 50 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, 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 96%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Full WUSTL Behavioral Sciences Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kansas landed the #2 spot on the list. KU is a large school located in Lawrence, Kansas that handed out 19 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. 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%.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at KU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Iowa is a large school located in Iowa City, Iowa that handed out 8 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees 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 1.2% 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%.
Full Iowa Behavioral Sciences Report
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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.
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