2022 Best Value Health Information Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Health Information Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,978 people earned their degree in health information management, making the major the 251st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 211 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great health information management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health information management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Health Information Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Health Information Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree health information students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Information Management in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,040 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Health Information Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. Texas State is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 21 masters’s health information degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Health Information Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas State are $17,040, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Texas State Health Information Management Report

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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