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2022 Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s

7 Ranked Colleges
168 Degrees Awarded
$18,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor's

When it comes to choosing a college, students 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 “Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,320 people earned their degree in data processing, making the major the 227th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, data processing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,900 and had an average of $17,482 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 168 data processing graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in data processing. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent data processing programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the data processing program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree data processing students.

Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data Processing

#1

Bellevue College

Bellevue, Washington
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellevue College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Bellevue College is a fairly large school located in Bellevue, Washington that handed out 35 bachelors’s data processing degrees in 2019-2020.

BC also made our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for BC is $7,870 for Bachelor’s Degree Data Processing students.

Full Bellevue College Data Processing Report

#2

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Mississippi. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s. Southern Miss is a fairly large public school situated in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It awarded 34 bachelors’s data processing degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree data processing students list, Southern Miss has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Southern Miss is $14,923 for Bachelor’s Degree Data Processing students.

Read more about Data Processing at University of Southern Mississippi

#3

Capella University

Minneapolis, Minnesota
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Capella University landed the #3 spot on the list. Capella University is a large private for-profit school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 11 bachelors’s data processing degrees in 2019-2020.

Capella University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Capella University is $17,619 for Bachelor’s Degree Data Processing students.

Read full report on Data Processing at Capella University

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Arkansas State University - Main Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, this fairly large public school handed out 20 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s data processing students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at A-State, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus is $13,406 for Bachelor’s Degree Data Processing students.

Full Arkansas State University - Main Campus Data Processing Report

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s list. University of Nevada - Las Vegas is located in Las Vegas, Nevada and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 35 bachelors’s data processing degrees to qualified students.

UNLV did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend UNLV is $11,424 for bachelor’s degree data processing students.

Read more about Data Processing at UNLV

#6

University of Dubuque

Dubuque, Iowa
#6 in overall quality

University of Dubuque came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking. Located in Dubuque, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s data processing students in 2019-2020.

UD also took the #6 spot in our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Dubuque is $26,748 for bachelor’s degree data processing students.

Read more about Data Processing at University of Dubuque

#7

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, California
#3 in overall quality

University of San Francisco came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Data Processing Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking. This fairly large school is located in San Francisco, California, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s data processing degrees in 2019-2020.

USFCA also made our “Best Data Processing Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $36,424 for bachelor’s degree data processing students per year to attend USFCA.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Data Processing at University of San Francisco

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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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