2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurship in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 8,484 people earned their degree in entrepreneurship, making the major the 158th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 568 entrepreneurship graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 entrepreneurship graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in entrepreneurship. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their entrepreneurship program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurship in the Plains States Region

1

Peru State College
Peru, Nebraska

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Peru State College landed the #1 spot on the list. Peru, Nebraska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s entrepreneurial studies degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Entrepreneurship at Peru State College

2

Dickinson State University
Dickinson, North Dakota

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dickinson State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Dickinson, North Dakota, and it awarded 5 masters’s entrepreneurial studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#22 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Capella University landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it awarded 1 masters’s entrepreneurial studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Entrepreneurship at Capella University

4

University of St Thomas Minnesota
Saint Paul, Minnesota

#15 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurial Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of St Thomas Minnesota landed the #4 spot on the list. UST MN is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 24 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Entrepreneurship at University of St Thomas Minnesota

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurship

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.

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