2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Informatics (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Informatics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,431 people earned their degree in informatics, making the major the 278th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 77 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Informatics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in informatics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality informatics programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the informatics program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Informatics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Informatics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree informatics students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Informatics (With Aid)

#1

Ivy Tech Community College

Indianapolis, Indiana

#2 in overall quality

$6,919 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ivy Tech Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Informatics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, this large public school handed out 74 diplomas to qualified associates’s informatics students in 2019-2020.

Ivy Tech Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Informatics Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $6,919 for associate degree informatics students with aid per year to attend Ivy Tech Community College.

Read full report on Informatics at Ivy Tech Community College

#2

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, New York

#1 in overall quality

$33,167 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Informatics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Rochester Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Rochester, New York, and it awarded 3 associates’s informatics degrees in 2019-2020.

RIT also took the #1 spot in our “Best Informatics Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Rochester Institute of Technology is $33,167 for Associate Degree Informatics students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full Rochester Institute of Technology Informatics Report

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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