2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Data Analytics in the Plains States Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,338 people earned their degree in data analytics, making the major the 236th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 174 data analytics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 74 data analytics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Analytics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in data analytics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in data analytics.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Analytics Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Data Analytics in the Plains States Region

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Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

Top 20% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Analytics Major in the Plains States Region list. This small school is located in Winona, Minnesota, and it awarded 66 masters’s data analytics degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 Data Analytics at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

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Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Analytics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Drake University landed the #2 spot on the list. Des Moines, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s data analytics degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Data Analytics at Drake University

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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.