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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Utah for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Information Science is the 47th most popular major in the country with 18,325 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Utah, there were 358 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 181 general information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,613 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Utah for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general information science. To top this list, a school must have a successful general information science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Utah for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for utah master’s degree information science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Utah for a Master’s. U of U is a large school located in Salt Lake City, Utah that handed out 181 masters’s information science degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. 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 full report on General Information Science at U of U
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Information Science Major in Utah for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Logan, Utah, and it awarded 0 masters’s information science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Information Science at USU
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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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