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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
General Information Science is the 47th most popular major in the country with 17,504 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 2,760 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,470 and $126,402 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general information science. That schools that top this list have a program in general information science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree information science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 11 doctorate’s information science degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Information Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is a large school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that handed out 3 doctorate’s information science degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Information Science at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. U-M is a large public school situated in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It awarded 10 doctorate’s information science degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *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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