2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management is the 268th most popular major in the country with 2,709 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 362 crisis/emergency/disaster management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 crisis/emergency/disaster management graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in crisis/emergency/disaster management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their crisis/emergency/disaster management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management in the Plains States Region

1

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#22 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large private for-profit school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s crisis/emergency/disaster management students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management at Capella University

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

Top 25% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. North Dakota State University is a public institution located in Fargo, North Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management at North Dakota State University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management

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.