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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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Medical Informatics is the 311th most popular major in the country with 2,004 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 97 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 69 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in medical informatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in medical informatics.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 52 masters’s medical informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Lubbock, Texas, this medium-sized public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s medical informatics students in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Medical Informatics at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Tyler. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Southwest Region list. UT Tyler is a public institution located in Tyler, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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.