2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Museology/Museum Studies in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 816 people earned their degree in museology/museum studies, making the major the 561st most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 56 museology/museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 museology/museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in museology/museum studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their museology/museum studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

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

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. KU is a public institution located in Lawrence, Kansas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Read full report on Museology/Museum Studies at KU

2

University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

#14 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #2 spot on the list. Lincoln, Nebraska is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s museology/museum studies degrees to 0 students 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Museology/Museum Studies at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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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.