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

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Sports Studies is the 557th most popular major in the country with 614 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 65 sports studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 sports studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in sports studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sports studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

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

1

Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Mankato landed the #1 spot on the list. Minnesota State University - Mankato is a fairly large school located in Mankato, Minnesota that handed out 11 masters’s sports studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Sports Studies at Minnesota State Mankato

2

Northwest Missouri State University
Maryville, Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Missouri State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Maryville, Missouri, this medium-sized public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s sports studies students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sports Studies at Northwest

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sports Studies

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.