2022 Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

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Natural Sciences is the 339th most popular major in the country with 2,345 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 167 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great natural sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the natural sciences program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree natural sciences students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in the Plains States Region

#1

Missouri State University - Springfield

Springfield, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$12,042 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri State University - Springfield. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region list. Springfield, Missouri is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s natural sciences degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Missouri State also made our “Best Natural Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Missouri State University - Springfield are $12,042, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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