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by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Information Science is the 58th most popular major in the country with 17,504 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. 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 Arkansas, there were 139 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,275 and $45,885 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,230 and $39,384 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in information science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their information science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Harding University landed the #2 spot on the list. Harding is located in Searcy, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 39 masters’s is degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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 #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas. UA Little Rock is a medium-sized public school situated in Little Rock, Arkansas. It awarded 11 masters’s is degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Information Science at University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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