2022 Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 106 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 56 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in informatics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality informatics programs that also have a lower cost than 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Informatics in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Phoenix - Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$17,096 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 38 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UOPX - Arizona, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UOPX - Arizona are $17,096.

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#2

Texas Woman's University

Denton, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$14,962 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Woman’s University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. This fairly large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 14 masters’s informatics degrees in 2019-2020.

TWU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Woman’s University are $14,962.

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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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