2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science is the 93rd most popular major in the country with 18,901 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in clinical/medical laboratory science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in clinical/medical laboratory science.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree clinical laboratory science students.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s list. UND is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees to qualified students.

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 more about Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at UND

2

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#4 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s 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 6 masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at UMN Twin Cities

• Most Popular 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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