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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended MIS Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Management Information Systems is the 73rd most popular major in the country with 13,680 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 “Most Well Attended MIS Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in management information systems. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular management information systems programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended MIS Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree mis students.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended MIS Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate. University of Phoenix - Arizona is a large private for-profit school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 31 doctorate’s MIS degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Management Information Systems at UOPX - Arizona

2

The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended MIS Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate 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 The University of Texas at San Antonio Management Information Systems Report

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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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