If you plan on majoring in information science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #58 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Utah to determine which ones were the best for information science students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 358 degrees in information science to qualified students.
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 Best Information Science Schools in Utah list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of is degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Utah is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in information science. U of U is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City.
Degree recipients from the information science program at University of Utah make $3,815 above the standard graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Every student who is interested in information science needs to take a look at Utah Valley University. Located in the small city of Orem, UVU is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Graduates who receive their degree from the is program make an average of $62,925 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).