2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Organizational Leadership 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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Organizational Leadership Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Organizational Leadership is the 57th most popular major in the country with 15,171 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 2,200 organizational leadership graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 organizational leadership graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Organizational Leadership Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in organizational leadership. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in organizational leadership.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Organizational Leadership Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Organizational Leadership Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Organizational Leadership in the Plains States Region

1

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#22 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Capella University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Organizational Leadership Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large private for-profit school awarded 29 degrees to qualified doctorate’s organizational leadership students in 2020-2021.

Full Capella University Organizational Leadership Report

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University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#4 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Organizational Leadership Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s organizational leadership degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 more about Organizational Leadership at University of Minnesota - 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

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.