2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer & Information Sciences Major in Idaho

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Computer & Information Sciences Major in Idaho” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Computer & Information Sciences is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 6th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 254,454 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, computer and information sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,893 and had an average of $27,324 in loans still to pay off.

Across Idaho, there were 985 computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,464 and $19,976 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,135 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer & Information Sciences Major in Idaho” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in computer and information sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in computer and information sciences.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer & Information Sciences Major in Idaho

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer & Information Sciences Major in Idaho”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer & Information Sciences in Idaho

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University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#3 overall quality in Idaho

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer & Information Sciences Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Idaho landed the #1 spot on the list. U of I is a fairly large public school situated in Moscow, Idaho. It awarded 17 masters’s computer and information sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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 Computer & Information Sciences at University of Idaho

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Boise State University
Boise, Idaho

#1 overall quality in Idaho

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer & Information Sciences Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, Boise State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Boise, Idaho, this large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified masters’s computer and information sciences students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Boise State Computer & Information Sciences Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer & Information Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer & Information Sciences

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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