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

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Learning Sciences is the 337th most popular major in the country with 1,541 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 17 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 learning 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 Learning Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in learning sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their learning sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences in the Plains States Region

1

Morningside College
Sioux City, Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Morningside College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Sioux City, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s learning sciences students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Learning Sciences at Morningside College

2

University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

#9 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Iowa. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Iowa is a large public school situated in Iowa City, Iowa. It awarded 2 masters’s learning sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Iowa Learning Sciences Report

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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.

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