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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 Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,696 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 152 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 $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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 southwest region bachelor’s degree informatics students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Woman’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region list. TWU is a fairly large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 7 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Informatics at TWU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region list. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 32 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, 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.
Full Arizona State University - Tempe Informatics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s informatics degrees to 18 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Informatics at University of Arizona
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the #4 spot on the list. Northern Arizona University is a large school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 3 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Northern Arizona 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.