2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Plains States Region

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Individualized Studies is the 38th most popular major in the country with 37,634 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 1,033 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

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

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree individualized studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Individualized Studies in the Plains States Region

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Chadron State College
Chadron, Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chadron State College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Chadron State College is a small school located in Chadron, Nebraska that handed out 3 masters’s individualized studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Chadron State College Individualized Studies Report

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Baker University
Baldwin City, Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baker University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Baker University is a small school located in Baldwin City, Kansas that handed out 0 masters’s individualized studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Individualized Studies at Baker

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Individualized Studies

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.