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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,696 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 167 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 106 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree informatics students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 77 degrees to qualified masters’s informatics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Informatics at Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #2 spot on the list. Worcester, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 27 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%. 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.
Full Clark University Informatics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s informatics students 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%.
Read full report on Informatics at UMaine
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Notes and References
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.
