2024 Best Informatics Schools in the Great Lakes Region
8Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
846Informatics Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in informatics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #246 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for informatics students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 846 degrees in informatics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of informatics school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for informatics schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Informatics Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Best Schools for Informatics in the Great Lakes Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the informatics degree levels they offer.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in informatics. Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #29 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were about 11 informatics students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent year we have data available.
Indiana University - Bloomington is a great option for students interested in a degree in informatics. Located in the small city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #55 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means IU Bloomington is a great university overall.
There were roughly 483 informatics students who graduated with this degree at IU Bloomington in the most recent data year.
Ivy Tech Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in informatics. Ivy Tech Community College is a very large public college located in the city of Indianapolis. This college ranks 13th out of 42 colleges for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were approximately 151 informatics students who graduated with this degree at Ivy Tech Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in informatics needs to take a look at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. IUPUI is a very large public university located in the large city of Indianapolis. A Best Colleges rank of #274 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means IUPUI is a great university overall.
There were approximately 131 informatics students who graduated with this degree at IUPUI in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the town of Menomonie, UW - Stout is a public university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #455 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UW - Stout is a great university overall.
There were roughly 10 informatics students who graduated with this degree at UW - Stout in the most recent data year.
Located in the large suburb of River Forest, Dominican U is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 30th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 9 informatics students who graduated with this degree at Dominican U in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the midsize city of South Bend, Indiana University - South Bend is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 35th out of 42 colleges for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were about 6 informatics students who graduated with this degree at Indiana University - South Bend in the most recent data year.
Indiana University - Southeast is a small public university located in the suburb of New Albany. This university ranks 32nd out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were approximately 12 informatics students who graduated with this degree at Indiana University - Southeast in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).