2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 18,901 people earned their degree in clinical/medical laboratory science, making the major the 93rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, clinical/medical laboratory science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,036 and had an average of $19,885 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 1,189 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,133 and $25,006 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in clinical/medical laboratory science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their clinical/medical laboratory science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Plains States Region

1

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Top 20% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region list. UND is a public institution located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at University of North Dakota

2

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#4 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science 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. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees to 6 students 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 full report on Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science

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.

Credits

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