by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region” 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.
Across the Southeast region, there were 162 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 76 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in informatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in informatics.
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The informatics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region”.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. 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.
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree informatics students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Lafayette, Louisiana, and it awarded 37 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Montevallo. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region. University of Montevallo is located in Montevallo, Alabama and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s informatics degrees to qualified students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mercer University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region. Mercer is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Macon, Georgia. It awarded 7 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Florida landed the #4 spot on the list. Jacksonville, Florida is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s informatics degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Gulf Coast University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Fort Myers, Florida, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Liberty University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Liberty University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. It awarded 17 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
Lipscomb University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region list. Lipscomb University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 3 bachelors’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
University of Kentucky did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #7. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s informatics degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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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