2024 Best Epidemiology Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
111Epidemiology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in epidemiology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #280 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for epidemiology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 111 degrees in epidemiology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of epidemiology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for epidemiology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Epidemiology Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Epidemiology in the Plains States Region
The schools below may not offer all types of epidemiology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you want to pursue a degree in epidemiology. Located in the city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #51 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were roughly 52 epidemiology students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat University of Iowa if you want to pursue a degree in epidemiology. Iowa is a fairly large public university located in the city of Iowa City. This university ranks 2nd out of 40 schools for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were about 14 epidemiology students who graduated with this degree at Iowa in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Saint Louis University if you wish to pursue a degree in epidemiology. SLU is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Saint Louis. This university ranks 7th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 14 epidemiology students who graduated with this degree at SLU 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).
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