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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Iowa” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Iowa, there were 19 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,980 and $30,839 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Iowa” ranking, we looked at 2 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Iowa” list to help you make the college decision.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Iowa
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Iowa”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Luther College landed the #1 spot on the list. Luther is a private not-for-profit institution located in Decorah, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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 more about Information Science at Luther College
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Central College landed the #2 spot on the list. Central is a private not-for-profit institution located in Pella, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Information Science at Central
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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
- *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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