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Ranked Colleges
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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. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.
Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,696 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 770 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 40 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in informatics. That schools that top this list have a program in informatics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree informatics students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis landed the #1 spot on the list. Indianapolis, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 25 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%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Bloomington landed the #2 spot on the list. Indiana University - Bloomington is a large school located in Bloomington, Indiana that handed out 15 masters’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 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%.
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- *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.