14
Ranked Colleges
133
Degrees Awarded
$25,800
Avg Cost*
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 3,317 people earned their degree in health information management, making the major the 251st most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 292 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 133 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 14 colleges that offer a degree in health information management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in health information management.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
The health information school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region”.
One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important 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.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stephens College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region. Stephens is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Columbia, Missouri. It awarded 23 bachelors’s health information degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 Health Information Management at Stephens College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The College of Saint Scholastica. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Duluth, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 21 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s health information students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Health Information Management at St. Scholastica
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri Western State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region list. This small school is located in Saint Joseph, Missouri, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s health information degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Health Information Management at Missouri Western State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dakota State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region list. Madison, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s health information degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
Full Dakota State Health Information Management Report
Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clarkson College landed the #5 spot on the list. Clarkson College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Omaha, Nebraska. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%.
Full Clarkson College Health Information Management Report
Herzing University - Minneapolis ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region list. Herzing University - Minneapolis is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 1 bachelors’s health information degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Health Information Management at Herzing University - Minneapolis
Rasmussen University - Kansas did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #7. Located in Topeka, Kansas, this small private for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s health information students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Health Information Management at Rasmussen University - Kansas
Rasmussen University - Minnesota did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #8. Rasmussen University - Minnesota is a small private for-profit school situated in St. Cloud, Minnesota. It awarded 6 bachelors’s health information degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Health Information Management at Rasmussen University - Minnesota
Rasmussen University - North Dakota landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Rasmussen University - North Dakota is a small school located in Fargo, North Dakota that handed out 1 bachelors’s health information degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Health Information Management at Rasmussen University - North Dakota
Capella University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Capella University is a large private for-profit school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 38 bachelors’s health information degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Health Information Management at Capella University
Mercy College of Health Sciences did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #11. Mercy College of Health Sciences is located in Des Moines, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s health information degrees to qualified students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 Health Information Management at Mercy College of Health Sciences
University of Kansas did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #12. University of Kansas is a large school located in Lawrence, Kansas that handed out 16 bachelors’s health information degrees 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
Read more about Health Information Management at University of Kansas
Saint Louis University landed the #13 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Saint Louis University is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s health information degrees to qualified students.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read full report on Health Information Management at SLU
Focus on a Specific Degree Level
Switch to a More General Major
Switch to a Similar Major
Switch to a Different Ranking Method
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
- *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.
college factual
