2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Physics in the Plains States Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Health/Medical Physics is the 770th most popular major in the country with 258 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 15 health/medical physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 health/medical physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in health/medical physics. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in health/medical physics.
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Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics 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 health/medical physics students.
Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Physics in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Creighton University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s list. Creighton is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Omaha, Nebraska. It awarded 3 masters’s health/medical physics degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
Full Creighton University Health/Medical Physics Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics 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. UMN Twin Cities is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 2 masters’s health/medical physics 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 Health/Medical Physics at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington University in St Louis. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s list. Washington University in St Louis is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s health/medical physics degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Health/Medical Physics at Washington University in St Louis
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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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