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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 the New England Region” 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 the New England region, there were 144 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 95 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network landed the #1 spot on the list. Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network is a fairly large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 78 masters’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Full Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network Informatics Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #2 spot on the list. Worcester, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
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%. 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 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.
Read full report on Informatics at Clark
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 2 masters’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Informatics at UMaine
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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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