2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Informatics in the Southwest Region

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Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,726 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 158 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 92 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in informatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in informatics.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Informatics in the Southwest Region

1

Texas Woman's University
Denton, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 29 masters’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Informatics at TWU

2

University of Phoenix - Arizona
Tempe, Arizona

#13 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. UOPX - Arizona is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 56 masters’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Informatics at University of Phoenix - Arizona

3

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Informatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Flagstaff, Arizona, this large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s informatics students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Informatics at NAU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Informatics

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

Footnotes

• *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.