2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Information Science in Arkansas

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value IS Schools for an Associate in Arkansas” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 18,368 people earned their degree in information science, making the major the 56th most popular in the United States. 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 Arkansas, there were 120 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,300 and $55,909 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,815 and $15,092 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality information science programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value IS Schools for an Associate in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IS Schools for an Associate in Arkansas.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Information Science in Arkansas

#1

Arkansas State University - Mountain Home

Mountain Home, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$10,259 Average Net Price

$24,421 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arkansas State University - Mountain Home. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value IS Schools for an Associate in Arkansas. ASUMH is a small school located in Mountain Home, Arkansas that handed out 8 associates’s IS degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at ASUMH, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Information Science Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. It costs about $10,259 for Arkansas Associate Degree IS students per year to attend ASUMH.

Full Arkansas State University - Mountain Home Information Science Report

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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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