2
Ranked Colleges
11
Degrees Awarded
$25,700
Avg Cost*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 2,076 people earned their degree in medical informatics, making the major the 311th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 107 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in medical informatics. That schools that top this list have a program in medical informatics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The medical informatics 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region”.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree medical informatics students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Denton, Texas, this fairly large public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s medical informatics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Medical Informatics at Texas Woman’s University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LeTourneau University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region. LETU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Longview, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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 Medical Informatics at LeTourneau University
Switch to a Different Ranking Method
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.
