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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Far Western US region, there were 274 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,633 and $152,837 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in medical informatics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their medical informatics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree medical informatics students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stanford University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region. Stanford University is a fairly large school located in Stanford, California that handed out 10 doctorate’s medical informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on Medical Informatics at Stanford University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Seattle, Washington, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s medical informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. 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 University of Washington - Seattle Campus Medical Informatics Report
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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.
