2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Salary
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 Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 29,084 people earned their degree in transportation and materials moving, making the major the 33rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, transportation and materials moving graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,489 and had an average of $13,949 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 1,538 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,946 and $15,378 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in transportation and materials moving. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their transportation and materials moving program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Plains States Region list. University of North Dakota is a fairly large public school situated in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It awarded 26 masters’s transportation and materials moving degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 full report on Transportation & Materials Moving at UND
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Missouri. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Warrensburg, Missouri, this fairly large public school handed out 15 degrees to qualified masters’s transportation and materials moving students in 2020-2021.
Full University of Central Missouri Transportation & Materials Moving Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. North Dakota State University - Main Campus is located in Fargo, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s transportation and materials moving degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Transportation & Materials Moving at North Dakota State University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Louis University landed the #4 spot on the list. SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 28 masters’s transportation and materials moving degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full SLU Transportation & Materials Moving Report
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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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