2022 Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

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 the New England Region” 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 the New England region, there were 1,017 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,663 and $26,051 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 470 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

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

Top 4 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in the New England Region

#1

Norwich University

Northfield, Vermont

#3 in overall quality

$20,264 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$95,295 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Norwich University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. Norwich University is located in Northfield, Vermont and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 40 masters’s IS degrees to qualified students.

Norwich also took the #3 spot in our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Norwich are $20,264.

Read full report on Information Science at Norwich University

#2

University of Massachusetts - Boston

Boston, Massachusetts

#4 in overall quality

$36,485 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Boston. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s IS degrees to 32 students in 2019-2020.

UMass Boston not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Massachusetts - Boston are $36,485, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full University of Massachusetts - Boston Information Science Report

#3

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$50,654 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 15 diplomas to qualified masters’s IS students in 2019-2020.

Harvard also made our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard are $50,654.

Read more about Information Science at Harvard University

#4

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

#2 in overall quality

$57,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$94,408 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. Boston U is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 351 masters’s IS degrees in 2019-2020.

Boston U also made our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boston U are $57,666, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Information Science at Boston University

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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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