by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Medical Informatics is the 311th most popular major in the country with 2,004 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 286 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 233 medical informatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 10 colleges that offered 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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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree medical informatics students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s medical informatics degrees to 185 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St Catherine University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region. This small school is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and it awarded 11 masters’s medical informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region list. SLU is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 masters’s medical informatics degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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%.
Out of the 10 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Logan University landed the #4 spot on the list. Chesterfield, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s medical informatics degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 10 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mary landed the #5 spot on the list. UMary is a small school located in Bismarck, North Dakota that handed out 3 masters’s medical informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
University of Missouri - Columbia came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region ranking. University of Missouri - Columbia is a public institution located in Columbia, Missouri. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Medical Informatics at University of Missouri - Columbia
University of Kansas landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region ranking. KU is located in Lawrence, Kansas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s medical informatics degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Dakota State University ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region list. Dakota State University is located in Madison, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s medical informatics degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Medical Informatics at Dakota State University
University of Iowa landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region ranking. This large school is located in Iowa City, Iowa, and it awarded 1 masters’s medical informatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
Minnesota State University - Mankato landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Informatics Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Minnesota State University - Mankato is a public institution located in Mankato, Minnesota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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