by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 12,932 people earned their degree in computer programming, making the major the 108th most popular in the United States. In , computer programming graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $45,502 and had an average of $25,176 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 1,290 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,319 and $17,416 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 95 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in computer programming. That schools that top this list have a program in computer programming in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Plains States Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maharishi International University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Plains States Region list. MIU is located in Fairfield, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 33 masters’s programming degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maryville University of Saint Louis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Plains States Region list. Maryville U is a medium-sized school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 60 masters’s programming degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Maryville University of Saint Louis Computer Programming Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s programming degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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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