by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 1,714 people earned their degree in industrial design, making the major the 304th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 103 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in industrial design. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their industrial design program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Plains States Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wichita State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Wichita, Kansas, this fairly large public school handed out 9 degrees to qualified masters’s product design students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Plains States Region list. Iowa State University is located in Ames, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 9 masters’s product design degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kansas State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, this fairly large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s product design students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Plains States Region. Lawrence, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s product design degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
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