2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Information Resources Management Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,186 people earned their degree in information resources management, making the major the 395th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 28 information resources management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 information resources management graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Information Resources Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in information resources management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in information resources management.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Information Resources Management Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree information resources management students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Resources Management in the Southwest Region

1

Aspen University
Denver, Colorado

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Information Resources Management Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Aspen University landed the #1 spot on the list. Aspen University is a medium-sized private for-profit school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 2 masters’s information resources management degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Aspen University Information Resources Management Report

2

University of Dallas
Irving, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Dallas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Information Resources Management Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Irving, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s information resources management students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 UD Information Resources Management Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Resources Management

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.

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