2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations in the Plains States Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Labor & Industrial Relations is the 315th most popular major in the country with 1,789 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 241 labor and industrial relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 176 labor and industrial relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in labor and industrial relations. That schools that top this list have a program in labor and industrial relations in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Plains States Region list. Iowa is a public institution located in Iowa City, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 149 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Labor & Industrial Relations at University of Iowa
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations 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. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a public institution located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has a large population, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Labor & Industrial Relations 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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