2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Mathematics in Minnesota

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General Mathematics is the 26th most popular major in the country with 29,793 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Minnesota, there were 589 general mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 general mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,734 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Minnesota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general mathematics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general mathematics.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota master’s degree mathematical sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Mathematics in Minnesota

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Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

#17 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Minnesota list. Mankato, Minnesota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s mathematical sciences degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Read full report on General Mathematics at Minnesota State Mankato

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University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#1 overall quality in Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a large public school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 11 masters’s mathematical sciences 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about General Mathematics at UMN Twin Cities

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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.