2024 Best Informatics Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you plan on getting your master's degree in informatics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #141 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Informatics Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 55 master's degrees in informatics to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Informatics School for Your Master's Degree

The informatics master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality informatics program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to informatics students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other informatics students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized informatics related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for informatics students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Informatics Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Informatics in the Southeast Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in informatics.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Master's in Informatics

1

Emory University
Atlanta, GA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

Emory University is a great option for students pursuing a master's degree in informatics. Emory is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Atlanta.More information about a master’s in informatics from Emory University

2

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

Liberty University is a good decision for individuals interested in a master's degree in informatics. Liberty University is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Lynchburg.More information about a master’s in informatics from Liberty University

2

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

6 Annual Graduates

University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a great option for students interested in a master's degree in informatics. UL Lafayette is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lafayette.More information about a master’s in informatics from University of Louisiana at Lafayette

3

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

12 Annual Graduates

University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a great option for individuals pursuing a master's degree in informatics. Located in the large city of Greensboro, UNC Greensboro is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in informatics from University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Best Informatics Colleges by State

Explore the best informatics colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	422	5
Georgia	370	13
North Carolina	334	12
Virginia	331	16
Tennessee	313	3
Louisiana	250	6

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Rankings in Majors Related to Informatics

Informatics is one of 5 different types of Computer Information Systems programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Informatics

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Computer & Information Sciences	3,583
Information Technology	1,210
Other Computer & Information Sciences	61
Artificial Intelligence	19

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.