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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 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 Massachusetts” 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 Massachusetts, there were 164 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 104 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,127 and $43,515 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 2 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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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in Massachusetts”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in Massachusetts”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 77 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 full report on Informatics at Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clark University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in Massachusetts list. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 27 degrees to qualified masters’s informatics 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. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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.
