2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Plains States Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Behavioral Science is the 141st most popular major in the country with 4,493 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , behavioral science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $32,601 and had an average of $35,746 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 564 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,226 and $62,684 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 77 behavioral science 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 Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in behavioral science.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Plains States Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the 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 science degrees to 50 students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Behavioral Science at Washington University in St Louis
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kansas landed the #2 spot on the list. Lawrence, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s behavioral science degrees to 19 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Full KU Behavioral Science Report
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 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region. University of Iowa is a large school located in Iowa City, Iowa that handed out 8 masters’s behavioral science degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. 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%.
Read more about Behavioral Science at University of Iowa
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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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