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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,942 people earned their degree in health information management, making the major the 251st most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 56 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,012 and $13,730 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in health information management. That schools that top this list have a program in health information management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
The health information school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the New England Region”.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree health information students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Manchester Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Manchester, New Hampshire, this small public school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified associates’s health information students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.
Read full report on Health Information Management at MCC
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mount Wachusett Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the New England Region. Mount Wachusett Community College is a public institution located in Gardner, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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%.
Read more about Health Information Management at MWCC
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Essex Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the New England Region list. Haverhill, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s health information degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Northern Essex Community College Health Information Management Report
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
- *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.
