2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Plains States Region

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Behavioral Sciences is the 177th most popular major in the country with 4,169 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 279 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 89 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular behavioral sciences programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Plains States Region

1

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington University in St Louis is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 67 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full WUSTL Behavioral Sciences Report

2

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s. This large school is located in Lawrence, Kansas, and it awarded 15 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Behavioral Sciences at University of Kansas

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University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

#9 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Iowa. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s. This large school is located in Iowa City, Iowa, and it awarded 7 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Behavioral Sciences at University of Iowa

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences

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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