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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Informatics for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,726 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 158 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great informatics programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the informatics program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Informatics for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree vets studying informatics.
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Informatics for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Widener University landed the #1 spot on the list. Widener University is located in Chester, Pennsylvania and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s informatics degrees to qualified students.
Widener did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list.Our most recent data shows that 111 of the 6,150 students enrolled at Widener University were GI Bill® students, of which 51 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,151. On top of their other funding sources, 9 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, 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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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