2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Sustainability Science is the 176th most popular major in the country with 3,745 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , sustainability science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $42,827 and had an average of $29,092 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 189 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $20,036 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 sustainability 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 Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in sustainability science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sustainability science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Science in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Black Hills State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region. This small school is located in Spearfish, South Dakota, and it awarded 5 masters’s sustainability science degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Sustainability Science at Black Hills State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington University in St Louis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region list. WUSTL is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 13 masters’s sustainability science degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Full Washington University in St Louis Sustainability Science Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, this large public school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified masters’s sustainability science students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Iowa Sustainability Science Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kansas State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s sustainability science degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 Sustainability Science at K -State
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #5 spot on the list. USD is a medium-sized school located in Vermillion, South Dakota that handed out 4 masters’s sustainability science degrees 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%.
Full University of South Dakota Sustainability Science Report
Iowa State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #6. Iowa State University is located in Ames, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 26 masters’s sustainability science degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Sustainability Science at Iowa State
With a ranking of #6, Saint Louis University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region list. SLU is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 0 masters’s sustainability science degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full SLU Sustainability Science Report
Maharishi International University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in the Plains States Region ranking. This small school is located in Fairfield, Iowa, and it awarded 4 masters’s sustainability science degrees in 2021-2022.
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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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