2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region

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Medical Informatics is the 311th most popular major in the country with 2,076 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 332 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 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.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree medical informatics students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Medical Informatics in the Plains States Region

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University of Jamestown
Jamestown, North Dakota

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Jamestown landed the #2 spot on the list. Jamestown, North Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medical informatics degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UJ Medical Informatics Report

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Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

Top 20% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Mankato landed the #2 spot on the list. Minnesota State University - Mankato is a fairly large public school situated in Mankato, Minnesota. It awarded 2 bachelors’s medical informatics degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Medical Informatics at Minnesota State Mankato

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.