2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in Nebraska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Nebraska” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Nebraska, there were 187 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,858 and $20,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 92 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,838 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Nebraska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in information science. That schools that top this list have a program in information science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska master’s degree is students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in Nebraska

1

Bellevue University
Bellevue, Nebraska

#4 overall quality in Nebraska

$79,056 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bellevue University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Nebraska. Bellevue University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Bellevue, Nebraska. It awarded 64 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 Bellevue University

2

University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska

#5 overall quality in Nebraska

$78,638 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Nebraska. UNOMAHA is a fairly large school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 28 masters’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 UNOMAHA

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in the Plains States 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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