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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Urban Affairs Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Urban Studies/Affairs is the 346th most popular major in the country with 1,453 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 58 urban studies/affairs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 urban studies/affairs graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Urban Affairs Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in urban studies/affairs. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their urban studies/affairs program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Urban Affairs Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Urban Studies/Affairs in the Plains States Region

1

University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Urban Affairs Major in the Plains States Region. UNOMAHA is a fairly large school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 6 masters’s urban affairs degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Urban Studies/Affairs at UNOMAHA

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Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Urban Affairs Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Mankato landed the #2 spot on the list. Minnesota State University - Mankato is a fairly large public school situated in Mankato, Minnesota. It awarded 3 masters’s urban affairs degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 Urban Studies/Affairs at Minnesota State University - Mankato

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.

Credits

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