2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Information Management in the Plains States Region

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Health Information Management is the 251st most popular major in the country with 2,942 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 229 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 98 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in health information management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their health information management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree health information students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Information Management in the Plains States Region

1

The College of Saint Scholastica
Duluth, Minnesota

Top 25% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The College of Saint Scholastica. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region list. The College of Saint Scholastica is located in Duluth, Minnesota and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 30 masters’s health information degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.

Full The College of Saint Scholastica Health Information Management Report

2

Park University
Parkville, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Park University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region list. Park University is a medium-sized school located in Parkville, Missouri that handed out 64 masters’s health information degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 Park University

3

Stephens College
Columbia, Missouri

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephens College landed the #3 spot on the list. Stephens College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Columbia, Missouri. It awarded 4 masters’s health information degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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 8 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 Stephens

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

• *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.