2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Plains States Region
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In 2020-2021, 406 people earned their degree in soil sciences, making the major the 292nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, soil sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,848 and had an average of $20,406 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 39 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 soil sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in soil sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in soil sciences.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree soil sciences students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Soil Sciences in the Plains States Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. North Dakota State University - Main Campus is a public institution located in Fargo, North Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Soil Sciences at North Dakota State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Ames, Iowa, this large public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified masters’s soil sciences students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Read full report on Soil Sciences at Iowa State
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Soil Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s soil sciences degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Soil Sciences at UMN Twin Cities
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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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