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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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Information Science Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 17,504 people earned their degree in general information science, making the major the 47th most popular in the United States.
Across District of Columbia, there were 182 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 39 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,578 and $24,158 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Information Science Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general information science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general information science.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Information Science Major in District of Columbia” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree information science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Strayer University - District of Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Information Science Major in District of Columbia. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s information science students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Global Region. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Information Science Major in District of Columbia list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s information science degrees to 15 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Information Science Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #3 spot on the list. GWU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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%.
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- *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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