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Ranked Colleges
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,696 people earned their degree in informatics, making the major the 246th most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 633 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 399 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in informatics. That schools that top this list have a program in informatics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school handed out 267 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s informatics students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 more about Informatics at UW Seattle
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Irvine. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Irvine, California, this large public school handed out 114 degrees to qualified bachelors’s informatics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, 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 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UC Irvine Informatics Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #3 spot on the list. USC is a large school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 18 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 96%.
Full USC Informatics 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.
