2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Georgia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Georgia” 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 Georgia, there were 413 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,140 and $34,453 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 45 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Georgia” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in information science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in information science.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Georgia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Georgia”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in Georgia

1

Strayer University - Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia

$72,151 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Georgia list. This medium-sized school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 18 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Science at Strayer University - Georgia

2

South University's online programs
Savannah, Georgia

$59,218 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South University’s online programs. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Georgia list. South University’s online programs is a medium-sized school located in Savannah, Georgia that handed out 5 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Science at South University’s online programs

3

Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia

#15 overall quality in Georgia

$82,087 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kennesaw State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Georgia. Kennesaw State University is located in Kennesaw, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 masters’s IS degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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 Kennesaw State University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’s 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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