2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data Processing in California (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 California, there were 97 data processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 data processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data Processing in California (With Aid)

#1

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, California

#1 in overall quality

$36,424 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of San Francisco landed the #1 spot on the list. University of San Francisco is located in San Francisco, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s data processing degrees to qualified students.

USFCA also took the #1 spot in our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for USFCA is $36,424 for California Bachelor’s Degree Data Processing students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Data Processing at University of San Francisco

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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.

Credits

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

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