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2022 Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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152 Degrees Awarded
Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 2,431 people earned their degree in informatics, making the major the 278th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 554 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 152 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in informatics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great informatics programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the informatics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Informatics (Income $48-$75k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

University at Albany

Albany, New York
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University at Albany landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Albany, New York, and it awarded 129 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2019-2020.

UAlbany also took the #2 spot in our “Best Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $20,138 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Informatics students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend UAlbany.

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#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Rochester Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 18 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s informatics students in 2019-2020.

RIT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Rochester Institute of Technology is $28,684 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Informatics students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

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#3

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #3 spot on the list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s informatics degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Drexel did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $33,324 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Informatics students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Drexel.

The low 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#4

Widener University

Chester, Pennsylvania
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Informatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Widener University landed the #4 spot on the list. Widener is a medium-sized school located in Chester, Pennsylvania that handed out 3 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2019-2020.

Widener did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $30,093 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree informatics students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Widener.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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

  • *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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