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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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Medical Informatics is the 311th most popular major in the country with 2,076 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 160 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the New England Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree medical informatics students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the New England Region list. Harvard is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the #2 spot on the list. Northeastern University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%.
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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%.
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- *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.
