2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Systems in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Info Systems Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,338 people earned their degree in information systems, making the major the 314th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 702 information systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 429 information systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Info Systems Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in information systems. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their information systems program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Info Systems Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree info systems students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Systems in the Southeast Region

1

Christian Brothers University
Memphis, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Christian Brothers University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Info Systems Major in the Southeast Region list. Memphis, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s info systems degrees to 34 students in 2020-2021.

Full Christian Brothers University Information Systems Report

2

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, Florida

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Info Systems Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Florida - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Tampa, Florida, this large public school handed out 164 diplomas to qualified masters’s info systems students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Information Systems at USF Tampa

3

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Info Systems Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Gainesville, Florida, this large public school awarded 180 degrees to qualified masters’s info systems students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Read more about Information Systems at University of Florida

4

Florida International University
Miami, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida International University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Info Systems Major in the Southeast Region list. FIU is a large public school situated in Miami, Florida. It awarded 51 masters’s info systems degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Full Florida International University Information Systems Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Systems

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

Footnotes

• *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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