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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,696 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across California, there were 366 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 132 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,904 and $19,503 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in informatics. That schools that top this list have a program in informatics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for california bachelor’s degree informatics students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Irvine landed the #1 spot on the list. Irvine, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s informatics degrees to 114 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California list. This large school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 18 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
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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
- *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.
