by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in District of Columbia” 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 District of Columbia, there were 180 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,336 and $43,067 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 137 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in information science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in information science.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in District of Columbia” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in District of Columbia”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Strayer University - District of Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in District of Columbia. Strayer University - District of Columbia is a small school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 3 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Strayer University - Global Region. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in District of Columbia. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this fairly large private for-profit school handed out 32 degrees to qualified masters’s IS students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, American University landed the #3 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s IS degrees to 32 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #4 spot on the list. George Washington University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 67 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in District of Columbia. Catholic University of America is a medium-sized school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 3 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%.
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