2022 Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Information Science is the 56th most popular major in the country with 18,368 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Alabama, there were 72 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,071 and $42,935 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,487 and $41,507 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent information science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the information science program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama master’s degree is students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science (Income $30-$48k) in Alabama

#1

South University, Montgomery

Montgomery, Alabama

$16,320 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,856 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, South University, Montgomery landed the #1 spot on the list. South University, Montgomery is a small school located in Montgomery, Alabama that handed out 2 masters’s IS degrees in 2019-2020.

South University, Montgomery not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at South University, Montgomery are $16,320, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Information Science at South University, Montgomery

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science (Income $30-$48k)

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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