2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Science (Income $0-$30k) in Arkansas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 18,368 people earned their degree in information science, making the major the 56th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $58,848 and had an average of $32,600 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 120 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,300 and $55,909 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality information science 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 information science 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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Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Science (Income $0-$30k) in Arkansas

#1

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Little Rock, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$13,936 Average Net Price

$45,128 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Little Rock, Arkansas, this medium-sized public school awarded 28 degrees to qualified bachelors’s IS students in 2019-2020.

UA Little Rock did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Arkansas at Little Rock is $13,936 for arkansas bachelor’s degree is students whose families make $0-$30k.

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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.

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