2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business Analytics in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 2,422 people earned their degree in business analytics, making the major the 498th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 266 business analytics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 81 business analytics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in business analytics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their business analytics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business Analytics in the Plains States Region

1

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Winona, Minnesota. It awarded 31 bachelors’s business analytics degrees 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%.

Full SMU MN Business Analytics Report

2

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

#25 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Northern Iowa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Analytics Major in the Plains States Region list. UNI is a medium-sized public school situated in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It awarded 23 bachelors’s business analytics degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Business Analytics at UNI

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.