by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Informatics Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,726 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 94 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Informatics Major” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in informatics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their informatics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Informatics Major” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree informatics students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ivy Tech Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Informatics Major. This large school is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and it awarded 88 associates’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Informatics Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Metropolitan Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Metropolitan Community College is a fairly large school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 2 associates’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rochester Institute of Technology. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Informatics Major. RIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Rochester, New York. It awarded 4 associates’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%.
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