by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended IS Major in Texas for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Texas, there were 1,802 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,632 and $29,929 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,315 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended IS Major in Texas for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in information science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in information science.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended IS Major in Texas for a Doctorate”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended IS Major in Texas for a Doctorate list. Denton, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s IS degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended IS Major in Texas for a Doctorate list. Located in Waco, Texas, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s IS students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended IS Major in Texas for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #3 spot on the list. UT Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 132 doctorate’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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