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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Plains States 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 Plains States region, there were 73 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 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 informatics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Plains States Region”.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree informatics students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska at Omaha landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Omaha, Nebraska, this fairly large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified doctorate’s informatics students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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 UNOMAHA
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Iowa is a large school located in Iowa City, Iowa that handed out 41 doctorate’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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.
