by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas” ranking.
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 Arkansas, there were 110 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,275 and $37,114 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,270 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas” 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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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 Arkansas” 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 Arkansas”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Arkansas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas list. Strayer University - Arkansas is located in Little Rock, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s IS degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harding University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas list. Harding is a small school located in Searcy, Arkansas that handed out 15 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas at Little Rock landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a public institution located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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