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Ranked Colleges
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Informatics for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Informatics is the 246th most popular major in the country with 2,726 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across New York, there were 567 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 158 informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,555 and $23,635 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Informatics for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in informatics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent informatics programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the informatics program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 Veteran Friendly in New York for Informatics for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Informatics for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rochester Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Informatics for a Bachelor’s. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 20 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s informatics students in 2020-2021.
RIT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” list.According to our most recent data, Rochester Institute of Technology supports 16,158 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $17,424. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Rochester Institute of Technology offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University at Albany. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in New York for Informatics for a Bachelor’s. Albany, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s informatics degrees to 138 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAlbany, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 260 of the 17,688 students enrolled at UAlbany were GI Bill® students, of which 136 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,220. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. UAlbany offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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