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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 “Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 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 “Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in informatics. To top this list, a school must have a successful informatics program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 “Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s”.
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 Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s. University of Massachusetts Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 46 bachelors’s informatics degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Full University of Massachusetts Amherst Informatics Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Assumption University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s list. Assumption is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s informatics degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Informatics at Assumption
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #3 spot on the 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. 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Informatics at Clark University
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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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