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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. 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 Info Systems Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Information Systems is the 314th most popular major in the country with 2,261 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 440 information systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 information systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their information systems program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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The info systems 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 Info Systems Major in the Southwest Region”.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Info Systems Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree info systems students.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Info Systems Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 0 masters’s info systems degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Information Systems at SMU
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.
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