2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Performance and Sport Psychology in the Plains States Region

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In 2020-2021, 72 people earned their degree in performance and sport psychology, making the major the 1037th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 44 performance and sport psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 performance and sport psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

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

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Performance and Sport Psychology Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Performance and Sport Psychology Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Performance and Sport Psychology 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Performance and Sport Psychology Major in the Plains States Region. Capella University is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 44 masters’s performance and sport psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Capella University Performance and Sport Psychology Report

2

Loras College
Dubuque, Iowa

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Performance and Sport Psychology Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Loras College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Dubuque, Iowa, and it awarded 0 masters’s performance and sport psychology degrees 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 Performance and Sport Psychology at Loras College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Performance and Sport 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.