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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US 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 Far Western US region, there were 633 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 221 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in informatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in informatics.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree informatics students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’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 #1 spot on the list. University of Southern California is located in Los Angeles, California and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 180 masters’s informatics degrees to qualified students.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
Read full report on Informatics at University of Southern California
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Jose State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region. San Jose, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 32 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. 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 San Jose State University Informatics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Irvine. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region. University of California - Irvine is a large school located in Irvine, California that handed out 9 masters’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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.
