If you plan on getting your master's degree in human computer interaction, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #132 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of human computer interaction. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 237 master's degrees in human computer interaction during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Human Computer Interaction School for Your Master's Degree
The human computer interaction master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to human computer interaction students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other human computer interaction students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for human computer interaction to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human computer interaction related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for human computer interaction students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Human Computer Interaction Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Human Computer Interaction in the Middle Atlantic Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in human computer interaction.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Human Computer Interaction
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).