2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Management Information Systems in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 13,680 people earned their degree in management information systems, making the major the 73rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, management information systems graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $57,647 and had an average of $24,340 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2,364 management information systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,839 and $22,098 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 management information systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on MIS Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in management information systems. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their management information systems program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on MIS Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on MIS Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Management Information Systems in the Southwest Region

1

University of Phoenix - Arizona
Tempe, Arizona

#13 overall quality in Southwest

$116,669 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on MIS Major in the Southwest Region. UOPX - Arizona is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 31 doctorate’s MIS degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Management Information Systems at University of Phoenix - Arizona

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The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on MIS Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at San Antonio landed the #2 spot on the list. UTSA is a large public school situated in San Antonio, Texas. It awarded 4 doctorate’s MIS degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UTSA Management Information Systems Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s 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

• *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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