2022 Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

Informatics is the 278th most popular major in the country with 2,431 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 161 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 85 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in informatics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality informatics programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the informatics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree informatics students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Informatics (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$44,676 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #1 spot on the list. Emory University is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 masters’s informatics degrees to qualified students.

Emory also made our “Best Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Emory are $44,676, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Informatics at Emory University

#2

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Lafayette, Louisiana

#3 in overall quality

$23,865 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a fairly large public school situated in Lafayette, Louisiana. It awarded 13 masters’s informatics degrees in 2019-2020.

UL Lafayette not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UL Lafayette are $23,865, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Informatics at UL Lafayette

#3

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$8,349 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #3 spot on the list. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

Liberty University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Liberty University are $8,349, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Liberty University Informatics Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Informatics (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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