2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences 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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,214 people earned their degree in natural sciences, making the major the 208th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, natural sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,745 and had an average of $18,648 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 163 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,898 and $14,331 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. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their natural sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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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

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lincoln University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Lincoln University is a small public school situated in Jefferson City, Missouri. It awarded 1 masters’s natural sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full LU Missouri Natural Sciences Report

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Missouri State University - Springfield
Springfield, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri State University - Springfield. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Springfield, Missouri, this large public school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s natural sciences 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 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

• *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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