10
Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
73
Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in
general information science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #94 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. 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 10 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for general information science students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 73 doctor's degrees in general information science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Your choice of general information science for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality information science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general information science students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of general information science students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general information science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general information science students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Information Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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