22
Colleges in the United States
194
Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in
general information science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #94 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 22 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for general information science students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 194 doctor's degrees in general information science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
The information science doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general information science students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other general information science students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general information science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general information science students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Information Science Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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