2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region

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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 Southwest region, there were 235 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 health information management graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in health information management. That schools that top this list have a program in health information management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Information Management in the Southwest Region

1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern Oklahoma State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Weatherford, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health information degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Health Information Management at SWOSU

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Information Major in the Southwest Region. Located in San Marcos, Texas, this large public school handed out 14 degrees to qualified masters’s health information students in 2020-2021.

Full Texas State Health Information Management Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Information Management

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.