2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forensic Psychology 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 has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 2,290 people earned their degree in forensic psychology, making the major the 267th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 400 forensic psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 forensic psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in forensic psychology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in forensic psychology.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree forensic psychology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forensic Psychology in the Plains States Region

1

Walden University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Walden University landed the #1 spot on the list. Walden University is a private for-profit institution located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has a large population, and it awarded 14 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Walden University Forensic Psychology Report

2

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Plains States Region list. Grand Forks, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s forensic psychology degrees to 62 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Forensic Psychology at University of North Dakota

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forensic Psychology

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.