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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Information Science is the 47th most popular major in the country with 18,325 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 1,038 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general information science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in general information science.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree information science students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Simmons University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s information science degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on General Information Science at Simmons University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate list. This large school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s information science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about General Information Science at Northeastern
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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