2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Information Science in Kansas

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in Kansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Kansas, there were 75 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,514 and $28,003 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,801 and $22,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in Kansas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in Kansas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in Kansas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Information Science in Kansas

1

Barton County Community College
Great Bend, Kansas

#17 overall quality in Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Barton County Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in Kansas list. Barton Community College is a small public school situated in Great Bend, Kansas. It awarded 1 associates’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Science at Barton Community College

2

Newman University
Wichita, Kansas

#13 overall quality in Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Newman University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IS Major in Kansas list. Newman University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Wichita, Kansas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Information Science at Newman University

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Information Science in the Plains States Region
• 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.

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