by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Virginia” 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 Virginia, there were 543 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,519 and $37,450 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 92 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 6 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Virginia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia master’s degree is students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Strayer University - Virginia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Virginia. Strayer University - Virginia is a small school located in Arlington, Virginia that handed out 49 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 Stratford University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Virginia. Stratford University is a small school located in Fairfax, Virginia that handed out 16 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South University, Richmond. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Virginia. South University, Richmond is a small private for-profit school situated in Glen Allen, Virginia. It awarded 3 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, South University, Virginia Beach landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and it awarded 1 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Information Science at South University, Virginia Beach
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Commonwealth University landed the #5 spot on the list. Virginia Commonwealth University is located in Richmond, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 masters’s IS degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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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George Mason University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Virginia ranking. George Mason University is a large school located in Fairfax, Virginia that handed out 8 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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