2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in Utah

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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.

For this year’s “Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in information science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality information science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the information science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in Utah

#1

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

#1 in overall quality

$24,695 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$79,520 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value IS Schools for a Master’s in Utah list. U of U is a large school located in Salt Lake City, Utah that handed out 155 masters’s IS degrees in 2019-2020.

U of U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in Utah” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at U of U are $24,695.

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#2

Utah State University

Logan, Utah

#2 in overall quality

$22,598 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$64,493 Average Early-Career Earnings

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. Utah State University is a public institution located in Logan, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 14 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

USU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in Utah” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Utah State University are $22,598.

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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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