2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region

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 Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 2,514 people earned their degree in natural sciences, making the major the 208th most popular in the United States. In , natural sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $25,745 and had an average of $19,618 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 164 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,898 and $14,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 natural 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 Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in natural sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural sciences.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree natural sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in the Plains States Region

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Lincoln University
Jefferson City, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lincoln University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. Jefferson City, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s natural sciences degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

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Missouri State University - Springfield
Springfield, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri State University - Springfield. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. This large school is located in Springfield, Missouri, and it awarded 6 masters’s natural sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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 Natural Sciences at Missouri State

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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