2022 Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Indiana

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 “Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Indiana” 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 Indiana, there were 393 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,800 and $13,488 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 72 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,737 and $39,894 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 a Master’s in Indiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Indiana.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in Indiana

#1

Ball State University

Muncie, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$26,204 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$67,324 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ball State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Indiana list. This large school is located in Muncie, Indiana, and it awarded 37 masters’s IS degrees in 2019-2020.

Ball State also made our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ball State are $26,204, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Information Science at Ball State

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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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