2022 Best Value MIS Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value MIS Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 14,198 people earned their degree in management information systems, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, management information systems graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $56,157 and had an average of $27,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2,383 management information systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,286 and $28,976 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 153 management information systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value MIS Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in management information systems. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent management information systems programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the management information systems program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value MIS Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value MIS Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree mis students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Management Information Systems in the Southwest Region

#1

Del Mar College

Corpus Christi, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,738 Average Net Price

$37,208 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Del Mar College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value MIS Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Del Mar College is a fairly large school located in Corpus Christi, Texas that handed out 35 associates’s MIS degrees in 2019-2020.

DMC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Management Information Systems Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend DMC is $5,738 for southwest region associate degree mis students.

Read more about Management Information Systems at Del Mar College

#2

Carl Albert State College

Poteau, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$5,415 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value MIS Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carl Albert State College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Poteau, Oklahoma, this small public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified associates’s MIS students in 2019-2020.

Carl Albert State College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Management Information Systems Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Carl Albert State College is $5,415 for Southwest Region Associate Degree MIS students.

Read more about Management Information Systems at Carl Albert State College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Management Information Systems

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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