2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Natural Sciences is the 209th most popular major in the country with 2,345 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, natural sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,257 and had an average of $22,289 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 167 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $22,300 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.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality natural sciences programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

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

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

#1

Missouri State University - Springfield

Springfield, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$12,042 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$47,260 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri State University - Springfield. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Missouri State is a large school located in Springfield, Missouri that handed out 13 masters’s natural sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

Missouri State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Missouri State University - Springfield are $12,042.

Read full report on Natural Sciences at Missouri State University - Springfield

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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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