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2022 Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k

2 Ranked Colleges
169 Degrees Awarded
$23,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value IS Schools for a Master's in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k

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 “Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Information Science is the 56th most popular major in the country with 18,368 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $58,848 and had an average of $32,600 in loans still to pay off.

Across Utah, there were 434 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,575 and $21,918 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 169 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in information science. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent information science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the information science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science (Income $48-$75k) in Utah

#1

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Utah landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Utah is a public institution located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 155 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

U of U did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in Utah” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Utah are $24,695, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Information Science at U of U

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k. Utah State University is a large school located in Logan, Utah that handed out 14 masters’s IS degrees in 2019-2020.

USU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in Utah” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at USU are $22,598, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Information Science at Utah State University

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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