by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 55 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in informatics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular informatics programs in the United States.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s informatics degrees to 13 students 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. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, this fairly large public school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified masters’s informatics students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. This fairly large school is located in Lafayette, Louisiana, and it awarded 6 masters’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 6 schools in the Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, St. Thomas University landed the #5 spot on the list. STU is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Miami Gardens, Florida. It awarded 5 masters’s informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
Lipscomb University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended Informatics Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s ranking. Lipscomb University is a small school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 3 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%.
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