2024 Best General Applied Mathematics Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
27Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in general applied mathematics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #140 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Applied Mathematics Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 27 master's degrees in general applied mathematics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Applied Mathematics School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of general applied mathematics for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general applied math program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general applied mathematics students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general applied mathematics students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general applied mathematics related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general applied mathematics students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Applied Mathematics Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Applied Mathematics Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study General Applied Mathematics in the Plains States Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for general applied mathematics students seeking a a master's degree.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Master's in General Applied Math
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).