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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 88 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree medical informatics students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 66 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Medical Informatics at UTHealth
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 12 masters’s medical informatics degrees to qualified students.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Medical Informatics at TTUHSC
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Tyler. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at Tyler is a public institution located in Tyler, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Medical Informatics at The University of Texas at Tyler
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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%.
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.
