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Ranked Colleges
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,696 people earned their degree in informatics, making the major the 246th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 152 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 73 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest 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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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 the Southwest Region”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the #1 spot on the list. Denton, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 16 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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 more about Informatics at Texas Woman’s University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Phoenix, Arizona, and it awarded 45 masters’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Arizona University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region list. Flagstaff, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 12 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 more about Informatics at Northern Arizona University
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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.
