2024 Best Informatics Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
7Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
725Informatics 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 7 schools in the Middle Atlantic 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 725 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 picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Informatics Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Informatics in the Middle Atlantic 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.
New York University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in informatics. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #27 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 54 informatics students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent data year.
Syracuse University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in informatics. Located in the city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #132 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Syracuse is a great university overall.
There were about 258 informatics students who graduated with this degree at Syracuse in the most recent data year.
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in informatics. Pitt is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Pittsburgh. A Best Colleges rank of #79 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Pitt is a great university overall.
There were about 37 informatics students who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Rochester Institute of Technology if you want to pursue a degree in informatics. Located in the suburb of Rochester, RIT is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population. This school ranks 22nd out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 78 informatics students who graduated with this degree at RIT in the most recent data year.
UAlbany is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Albany. This university ranks 36th out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 138 informatics students who graduated with this degree at UAlbany in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the distant town of Slippery Rock, SRU is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 30th out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 6 informatics students who graduated with this degree at SRU in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the suburb of Chester, Widener is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 17th out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 5 informatics students who graduated with this degree at Widener 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).