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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 New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,696 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 167 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 60 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in informatics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their informatics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree informatics students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 56 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, 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%.
Full University of Massachusetts Amherst Informatics Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Assumption University landed the #2 spot on the list. Assumption is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Worcester, Massachusetts. It awarded 4 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Informatics at Assumption University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clark University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region list. Clark is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 27 bachelors’s informatics degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Clark University Informatics Report
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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.
