by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 17,504 people earned their degree in information science, making the major the 58th most popular in the United States. In , information science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $59,671 and had an average of $31,100 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 521 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,238 and $20,811 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in information science.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree is students.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dakota State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Dakota State is a small school located in Madison, South Dakota that handed out 6 doctorate’s is degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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