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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 a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Great Lakes 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 Great Lakes region, there were 2,411 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,224 and $22,002 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Great Lakes Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a public institution located in Champaign, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Information Science Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is a large public school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 3 doctorate’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
Full UWM Information Science Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IS Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this large public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s IS students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Information Science at U-M
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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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