2022 Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Informatics is the 278th most popular major in the country with 2,431 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 474 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 144 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great informatics programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the informatics program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Informatics in the Far Western US Region

#1

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

#1 in overall quality

$48,715 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 135 masters’s informatics degrees in 2019-2020.

USC also made our “Best Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern California are $48,715, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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