2022 Best Value Medical Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Medical Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,795 people earned their degree in medical informatics, making the major the 359th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 88 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 70 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Medical Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in medical informatics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality medical informatics programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the medical informatics 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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The medical informatics 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 “Best Value Medical Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region”.

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Best Value Medical Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Medical Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Medical Informatics in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Lubbock, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$19,056 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. TTUHSC is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 masters’s medical informatics degrees to qualified students.

TTUHSC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Medical Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center are $19,056, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full TTUHSC Medical Informatics Report

#2

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$32,904 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Medical Informatics Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s medical informatics degrees to 48 students in 2019-2020.

UTHealth also took the #1 spot in our “Best Medical Informatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UTHealth are $32,904, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UTHealth Medical Informatics 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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