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2023 Most Popular Online Information Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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$67,433 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 18,325 information science students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #4 most popular in the country.

With all the computer science programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Computer Science Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Information Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which online graduate certificate programs were the most popular for computer science students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for IS majors pursuing an online graduate certificate.

#1

Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI

Our analysis found Marquette University to be the most popular school for information science students who want to pursue an online graduate certificate in the Great Lakes Region . Marquette is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Milwaukee.

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#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

The in-demand online graduate certificate programs at Purdue University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best information science schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Read full report on Information Science at Purdue University - Main Campus

Explore the most popular online information science schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 493
Ohio 275
Illinois 799
Indiana 280
Wisconsin 255

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One of 10 majors within the computer science area of study, information science has other similar majors worth exploring.

IS Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
General Information Science 18,325

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems 88,434
Computer Science 59,565
Information Technology 40,555
Computer Systems Networking 14,700
Computer Software & Applications 14,336

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to The Opte Project.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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