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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 135 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,038 and $47,245 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in health information management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in health information management.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree health information students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duquesne University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 5 degrees to qualified masters’s health information students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Health Information Management at Duquesne
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania is located in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s health information degrees to qualified students.
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%.
Full SRU Health Information Management Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Chatham University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Chatham is a small school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 0 masters’s health information degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on Health Information Management at Chatham University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The Graduate Center, CUNY landed the #3 spot on the list. New York, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health information degrees to 40 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Health Information Management at The Graduate Center
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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.
