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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 205 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duquesne University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s health information students in 2020-2021.
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 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Duquesne University Health Information Management Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s health information students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Health Information Management at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Chatham University landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 0 masters’s health information degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Health Information Management at Chatham University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Graduate Center, CUNY. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. The Graduate Center, CUNY is a public institution located in New York, New York. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 60 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% 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 full report on Health Information Management at The Graduate Center, CUNY
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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.
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