2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Information Science in Wisconsin

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 “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 18,325 people earned their degree in general information science, making the major the 47th most popular in the United States.

Across Wisconsin, there were 255 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,134 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general information science. To top this list, a school must have a successful general information science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for wisconsin master’s degree information science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Information Science in Wisconsin

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#13 overall quality in Wisconsin

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee landed the #1 spot on the list. UWM is a public institution located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 22 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Information Science at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#2 overall quality in Wisconsin

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Marquette University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s information science students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Marquette General Information Science Report

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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

• *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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