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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 2,696 people earned their degree in informatics, making the major the 246th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 163 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 81 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in informatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in informatics.
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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 Southeast Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Lafayette, Louisiana, and it awarded 43 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 UL Lafayette
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Montevallo. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region. University of Montevallo is located in Montevallo, Alabama and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s informatics degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Montevallo Informatics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mercer University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Macon, Georgia, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s informatics students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Informatics at Mercer University
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Florida landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Jacksonville, Florida, this fairly large public school awarded 15 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s informatics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of North Florida Informatics Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Gulf Coast University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Fort Myers, Florida, this fairly large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s informatics students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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 Florida Gulf Coast University
Liberty University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #6. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s informatics degrees to 11 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Informatics at Liberty University
With a ranking of #7, Lipscomb University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region list. Lipscomb is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 1 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Lipscomb Informatics Report
University of Kentucky did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #7. University of Kentucky is located in Lexington, Kentucky and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s informatics degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.
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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.
