2025 Best Forensic Science and Technology Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
101Forensic Science and Technology Degrees Awarded
A degree in forensic science and technology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #208 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of forensic science and technology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 101 degrees in forensic science and technology annually.
Choosing a Great Forensic Science and Technology School
Your choice of forensic science and technology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Forensic Science and Technology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Forensic Science and Technology Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Forensic Science and Technology Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Forensic Science and Technology in the Plains States Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the forensic science and technology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Forensic Science and Technology
Any student who is interested in forensic science and technology has to take a look at Saint Louis University. SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Saint Louis. A Best Colleges rank of #243 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means SLU is a great university overall.
There were about 10 forensic science and technology students who graduated with this degree at SLU in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in forensic science and technology has to check out University of North Dakota. Located in the small city of Grand Forks, UND is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 12 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Dakota.
There were about 13 forensic science and technology students who graduated with this degree at UND in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Missouri Western State University if you wish to pursue a degree in forensic science and technology. Missouri Western is a small public university located in the small city of Saint Joseph. This university ranks 40th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 5 forensic science and technology students who graduated with this degree at Missouri Western in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of forensic science and technology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Forensic Science and Technology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
