by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the New England Region” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 18,325 people earned their degree in information science, making the major the 58th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $59,394 and had an average of $28,852 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 1,038 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,605 and $24,016 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 70 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in information science. That schools that top this list have a program in information science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the New England Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Manchester Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the New England Region list. Manchester Community College is a small school located in Manchester, Connecticut that handed out 16 associates’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Capital Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the New England Region list. Capital Community College is located in Hartford, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 associates’s IS degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Information Science at Capital Community College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bunker Hill Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the New England Region. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s IS degrees to 24 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Information Science at Bunker Hill Community College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the New England Region list. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, this fairly large public school handed out 22 degrees to qualified associates’s IS students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cape Cod Community College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the New England Region. Cape Cod Community College is a small school located in West Barnstable, Massachusetts that handed out 1 associates’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
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