Best Astronomy & Astrophysics Master’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Astronomy & Astrophysics Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Astronomy & Astrophysics School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of astronomy & astrophysics for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to astronomy & astrophysics students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of astronomy & astrophysics students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt astronomy & astrophysics students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized astronomy & astrophysics related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for astronomy & astrophysics students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Sad to say, we did not have adequate data to produce a ranking of the top quality schools for astronomy & astrophysics in the Plains States Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer astronomy & astrophysics and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Astronomy & Astrophysics rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Astronomy & Astrophysics ranking.

Best Astronomy & Astrophysics Colleges by State

Explore the best astronomy & astrophysics colleges for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	174	2
Iowa	154	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to Astronomy

Astronomy & Astrophysics is one of 8 different types of Physical Sciences programs to choose from.

Astronomy Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Astronomy	3
Astrophysics	2

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Chemistry	143
Geological & Earth Sciences	105
Physics	85
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology	21
Materials Sciences	9
General Physical Sciences	3

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.