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2022 Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

6 Ranked Colleges
168 Degrees Awarded
$15,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $30-$48k

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 “Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,320 people earned their degree in data processing, making the major the 227th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, data processing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,900 and had an average of $17,482 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 168 data processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in data processing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great data processing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the data processing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data Processing (Income $30-$48k)

#1

Bellevue College

Bellevue, Washington
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellevue College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. Bellevue, Washington is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s data processing degrees to 35 students in 2019-2020.

BC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for BC is $7,478 for Bachelor’s Degree Data Processing students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about Data Processing at BC

#2

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, this fairly large public school handed out 34 degrees to qualified bachelors’s data processing students in 2019-2020.

Southern Miss not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Southern Miss is $13,373 for Bachelor’s Degree Data Processing students whose families make $30-$48k.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. University of Nevada - Las Vegas is located in Las Vegas, Nevada and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 35 bachelors’s data processing degrees to qualified students.

UNLV did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Nevada - Las Vegas is $9,880 for bachelor’s degree data processing students whose families make $30-$48k.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k. This fairly large school is located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s data processing degrees in 2019-2020.

A-State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend A-State is $11,672 for bachelor’s degree data processing students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about Data Processing at A-State

#5

University of Dubuque

Dubuque, Iowa
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Dubuque landed the #5 spot on the list. University of Dubuque is located in Dubuque, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s data processing degrees to qualified students.

UD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend UD is $21,715 for bachelor’s degree data processing students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about Data Processing at University of Dubuque

#6

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, California
#3 in overall quality

University of San Francisco ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s data processing degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

USFCA also made our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $29,186 for bachelor’s degree data processing students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend USFCA.

The low student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%.

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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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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