2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences 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 Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Biological & Physical Sciences is the 28th most popular major in the country with 30,032 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 103 biological & physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 biological & physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in biological & physical sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biological & physical sciences.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree biological & physical sciences students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Northern Iowa. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, this medium-sized public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s biological & physical sciences 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 UNI Biological & Physical Sciences Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri Western State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Saint Joseph, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s biological & physical sciences degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 Biological & Physical Sciences at Missouri Western State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeast Missouri State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and it awarded 0 masters’s biological & physical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Biological & Physical Sciences at Southeast Missouri State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Dakota. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Vermillion, South Dakota, this medium-sized public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s biological & physical sciences students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full USD Biological & Physical 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.
