2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International Relations in the Plains States Region
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International Relations is the 63rd most popular major in the country with 13,117 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 382 international relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 53 international relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Relations Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in international relations. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in international relations.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Relations Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Relations Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International Relations in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Webster University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Relations Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 44 diplomas to qualified masters’s international relations 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 International Relations at Webster
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Relations Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Manhattan, Kansas, and it awarded 7 masters’s international relations degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on International Relations at K -State
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Relations Major in the Plains States Region. Washington University in St Louis is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s international relations degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on International Relations at WUSTL
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Relations Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lindenwood University landed the #4 spot on the list. Lindenwood University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Charles, Missouri. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about International Relations at Lindenwood University
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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
- *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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