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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Medical Informatics is the 311th most popular major in the country with 2,004 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 350 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in medical informatics. That schools that top this list have a program in medical informatics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rutgers University - New Brunswick landed the #1 spot on the list. Rutgers University - New Brunswick is a large school located in New Brunswick, New Jersey that handed out 20 doctorate’s medical informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Full Rutgers University - New Brunswick Medical Informatics Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stony Brook University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Stony Brook, New York, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s medical informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Medical Informatics at SUNY Stony Brook
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Buffalo. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. University at Buffalo is a public institution located in Buffalo, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Full University at Buffalo Medical Informatics Report
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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.