2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region

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In 2020-2021, 2,214 people earned their degree in natural sciences, making the major the 345th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 163 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in natural sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in the Plains States Region

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Lincoln University
Jefferson City, Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lincoln University landed the #1 spot on the list. Lincoln University is a small school located in Jefferson City, Missouri that handed out 1 masters’s natural sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

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Missouri State University - Springfield
Springfield, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri State University - Springfield. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major 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 11 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Natural Sciences at Missouri State

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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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