2022 Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Data Processing is the 227th most popular major in the country with 2,320 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

Across the Plains States region, there were 38 data processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 data processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in data processing. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality data processing programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the data processing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data Processing (Income $75-$110k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Capella University

Minneapolis, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Capella University is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s data processing degrees to qualified students.

Capella University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list.

Read full report on Data Processing at Capella University

#2

University of Dubuque

Dubuque, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$31,214 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Dubuque. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. UD is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dubuque, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $31,214 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Data Processing students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend UD.

Full University of Dubuque Data Processing Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data Processing (Income $75-$110k)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Kenneth Jensen.

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