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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,726 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 144 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in informatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in informatics.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region. University of Massachusetts Amherst is a large school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 46 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Informatics at UMass Amherst
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Assumption University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region list. Worcester, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s informatics degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.
Full Assumption Informatics Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clark University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region list. Clark University is a small school located in Worcester, Massachusetts that handed out 15 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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.