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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 Master’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 2,726 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across California, there were 312 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 170 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,974 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California” ranking analyzed 3 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.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California list. University of Southern California is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Los Angeles, California. It awarded 151 masters’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. 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. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Informatics at University of Southern California
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Jose State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California. San Jose State is a large school located in San Jose, California that handed out 16 masters’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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Informatics at San Jose State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Irvine landed the #3 spot on the list. University of California - Irvine is a large public school situated in Irvine, California. It awarded 3 masters’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UC Irvine Informatics Report
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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.
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