2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Plains States Region

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In 2020-2021, 4,169 people earned their degree in behavioral sciences, making the major the 177th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 279 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 89 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in behavioral sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in behavioral sciences.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Plains States Region

1

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the 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 67 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Behavioral Sciences at WUSTL

2

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. This large school is located in Lawrence, Kansas, and it awarded 15 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at KU

3

University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

#9 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Iowa is a large school located in Iowa City, Iowa that handed out 7 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at Iowa

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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.

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