2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Information Science in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Information Science is the 58th most popular major in the country with 18,325 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Southwest region, there were 1,862 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,632 and $29,929 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in information science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their information science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree is students.

Top 6 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Information Science in the Southwest Region

1

North Central Texas College
Gainesville, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Central Texas College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Gainesville, Texas, this medium-sized public school awarded 18 degrees to qualified associates’s IS students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Science at North Central Texas College

2

Eastern Arizona College
Thatcher, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Arizona College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Southwest Region list. Eastern Arizona College is a small school located in Thatcher, Arizona that handed out 4 associates’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Science at Eastern Arizona College

3

Cochise County Community College District
Sierra Vista, Arizona

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cochise County Community College District landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Sierra Vista, Arizona, and it awarded 3 associates’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Information Science at Cochise College

4

Panola College
Carthage, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Panola College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Southwest Region. Panola College is a public institution located in Carthage, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Science at Panola College

5

Palo Alto College
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Palo Alto College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Southwest Region. Palo Alto College is a fairly large public school situated in San Antonio, Texas. It awarded 0 associates’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Information Science at Palo Alto College

5

University of Advancing Technology
Tempe, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Advancing Technology. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Southwest Region list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s IS degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Science at University of Advancing Technology

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Information Science

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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