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Considering a degree in Information Science/Studies?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Information Science/Studies majors who live in Alaska.
Rankings are calculated by estimating the net price at every college offering Information Science/Studies degrees for a "typical" middle class family living in the state of Alaska.
Note: Net price is the actual cost of college paid after factoring in financial aid.The net prices displayed in these rankings are College Raptor's estimates.
“Typical” middle class family values used in the Net Price estimates on this page are:
| Rank | Institution | Typical Net Price | Sticker Price | % Savings | Undergraduates | Est. Median SAT | Acceptance Rate | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Michigan-Flint | 5700 | 44000 | 0.8709 | 5,534 | 1079 | 0.6734 | |
| 2 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 6300 | 50600 | 0.875 | 35,358 | 1448 | 0.1642 | |
| 3 | Savannah State University | 6800 | 28000 | 0.756 | 2,966 | 950 | 1 | |
| 4 | College of Staten Island CUNY | 8000 | 36100 | 0.7793 | 10,368 | 1064 | 0.999 | |
| 5 | Northwestern University | 8100 | 93000 | 0.9131 | 9,060 | 1533 | 0.0769 | |
| 6 | Northern Kentucky University | 8200 | 26600 | 0.6929 | 10,136 | 1110 | 0.9666 | |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8900 | 96500 | 0.9082 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 8 | Portland State University | 10500 | 73900 | 0.8577 | 14,932 | 1174 | 0.8586 | |
| 9 | Southeastern Oklahoma State University | 10900 | 42400 | 0.7425 | 3,224 | 1085 | 0.7643 | |
| 10 | Valdosta State University | 11400 | 25300 | 0.5487 | 7,199 | 1005 | 0.7769 | |
| 11 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 13700 | 61700 | 0.7784 | 39,193 | 1418 | 0.4081 | |
| 12 | Fairmont State University | 13800 | 21600 | 0.3605 | 3,090 | 970 | 0.9862 | |
| 12 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro | 13800 | 19400 | 0.2887 | 14,865 | 1175 | 0.9113 | |
| 14 | University of California-Riverside | 13900 | 118100 | 0.882 | 24,034 | 1199 | 0.8609 | |
| 14 | University of Louisiana at Monroe | 13900 | 52800 | 0.737 | 6,761 | 1105 | 0.8475 | |
| 16 | University of South Carolina-Upstate | 14300 | 34500 | 0.5853 | 4,789 | 1040 | 0.6671 | |
| 17 | Coastal Carolina University | 14600 | 72300 | 0.7983 | 11,471 | 1160 | 0.7003 | |
| 17 | University of North Georgia | 14600 | 56800 | 0.7432 | 19,321 | 1100 | 0.9618 | |
| 19 | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay | 14700 | 19600 | 0.2499 | 10,995 | 1090 | 0.7476 | |
| 20 | Northwestern State University of Louisiana | 15200 | 28600 | 0.4692 | 7,501 | 1055 | 0.9467 | |
| 20 | Wayne State College | 15200 | 26400 | 0.4238 | 3,886 | 0 | 1 | |
| 22 | Radford University | 15400 | 32000 | 0.5196 | 6,206 | 1050 | 0.8939 | |
| 23 | Concord University | 15500 | 31700 | 0.5118 | 1,638 | 1015 | 0.9728 | |
| 24 | Jacksonville State University | 15700 | 42900 | 0.6334 | 8,663 | 1069 | 0.7769 | |
| 25 | Grand Valley State University | 15800 | 28500 | 0.4448 | 19,154 | 1074 | 0.9271 | |
| 26 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Greater Allegheny | 15900 | 43300 | 0.6329 | 308 | 1144 | 0.9053 | |
| 26 | The University of Texas at Arlington | 15900 | 27700 | 0.4254 | 32,545 | 1129 | 0.799 | |
| 28 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Beaver | 16100 | 43700 | 0.6311 | 475 | 1195 | 0.9418 | |
| 29 | Alabama State University | 16300 | 33500 | 0.5127 | 3,521 | 945 | 0.9755 | |
| 30 | University of North Texas | 16400 | 26100 | 0.3714 | 34,414 | 1094 | 0.7089 | |
| 31 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16600 | 64800 | 0.7439 | 22,007 | 1427 | 0.1672 | |
| 32 | Boston College | 17100 | 122200 | 0.8597 | 9,677 | 1484 | 0.1422 | |
| 33 | Southern University at New Orleans | 17200 | 41400 | 0.5852 | 2,179 | 950 | 0.789 | |
| 34 | East Carolina University | 17600 | 26100 | 0.3256 | 21,693 | 1065 | 0.9003 | |
| 35 | University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown | 17800 | 43500 | 0.5913 | 1,829 | 1149 | 0.945 | |
| 36 | The University of Texas Permian Basin | 18100 | 28600 | 0.3669 | 3,991 | 1010 | 0.9654 | |
| 37 | James Madison University | 18300 | 28900 | 0.3672 | 21,358 | 1259 | 0.6879 | |
| 38 | Kennesaw State University | 18400 | 61500 | 0.7004 | 46,069 | 1119 | 0.7944 | |
| 39 | Notre Dame of Maryland University | 18500 | 68100 | 0.7285 | 711 | 1030 | 0.8214 | |
| 39 | University of South Alabama | 18500 | 40600 | 0.5438 | 9,530 | 1140 | 0.9455 | |
| 41 | Coppin State University | 18900 | 51800 | 0.6345 | 1,908 | 950 | 0.4583 | |
| 42 | San Jose State University | 19000 | 41100 | 0.5379 | 29,890 | 1135 | 0.8039 | |
| 43 | Texas A&M University-Victoria | 19200 | 25000 | 0.2322 | 2,627 | 1000 | 0.5253 | |
| 44 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Hazleton | 19300 | 44600 | 0.5669 | 504 | 1200 | 0.9095 | |
| 45 | Syracuse University | 19800 | 83600 | 0.7632 | 16,149 | 1374 | 0.4879 | |
| 46 | Norwich University | 20100 | 76000 | 0.7351 | 2,626 | 1186 | 0.7444 | |
| 47 | Dakota State University | 20400 | 22500 | 0.0912 | 3,085 | 1174 | 0.9241 | |
| 47 | Texas A&M University-Commerce | 20400 | 36600 | 0.4424 | 9,666 | 1040 | 0.7498 | |
| 49 | Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | 20600 | 57800 | 0.6433 | 1,109 | 1175 | 0.9088 | |
| 50 | Grove City College | 20800 | 39700 | 0.4767 | 2,247 | 1248 | 0.667 | |
| 50 | University of Colorado Boulder | 20800 | 32100 | 0.3538 | 32,244 | 1351 | 0.7809 | |
| 52 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington | 21400 | 48100 | 0.5548 | 2,710 | 1218 | 0.9374 | |
| 53 | Luther College | 21500 | 75400 | 0.7153 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8398 | |
| 53 | Thiel College | 21500 | 88800 | 0.7583 | 830 | 1065 | 0.7189 | |
| 53 | University of Arkansas at Little Rock | 21500 | 51900 | 0.5863 | 5,939 | 1065 | 0.5878 | |
| 56 | University of Alaska Anchorage | 21700 | 26400 | 0.177 | 9,965 | 1095 | 1 | |
| 57 | Lincoln University | 22100 | 24900 | 0.1124 | 1,926 | 920 | 0 | |
| 57 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Brandywine | 22100 | 46000 | 0.5197 | 1,078 | 1217 | 0.9646 | |
| 59 | Averett University | 22300 | 57400 | 0.612 | 1,244 | 1054 | 0.5659 | |
| 60 | Brigham Young University-Hawaii | 22500 | 25400 | 0.1143 | 2,907 | 1125 | 0.4696 | |
| 61 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 22600 | 33600 | 0.3271 | 21,469 | 1167 | 0.9061 | |
| 62 | Fort Hays State University | 22900 | 28500 | 0.196 | 10,172 | 1075 | 0.9026 | |
| 63 | Houghton University | 23100 | 44300 | 0.4786 | 958 | 1277 | 0.89 | |
| 63 | Robert Morris University | 23100 | 58000 | 0.6012 | 4,325 | 1145 | 0.8989 | |
| 65 | Florida Memorial University | 23300 | 41500 | 0.4384 | 1,206 | 0 | 0.8526 | |
| 66 | Pennsylvania Western University | 23400 | 34400 | 0.3195 | 7,586 | 1045 | 0.9433 | |
| 67 | Columbia College | 23500 | 65100 | 0.6388 | 876 | 1025 | 0.8878 | |
| 68 | Lamar University | 23600 | 37500 | 0.3707 | 8,387 | 1040 | 0.8353 | |
| 69 | Dominican University | 23900 | 56000 | 0.573 | 2,642 | 1005 | 0.8879 | |
| 70 | Western Oregon University | 24600 | 24600 | 0 | 3,034 | 1120 | 0.8345 | |
| 71 | Ramapo College of New Jersey | 24700 | 36700 | 0.3267 | 5,492 | 1210 | 0.7026 | |
| 72 | Stockton University | 24900 | 32100 | 0.2242 | 7,583 | 1134 | 0.901 | |
| 73 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 25300 | 42000 | 0.3981 | 21,388 | 1369 | 0.5945 | |
| 74 | Emporia State University | 25400 | 32000 | 0.2062 | 2,396 | 1075 | 0.9771 | |
| 75 | Central College | 25600 | 38700 | 0.3388 | 1,050 | 1159 | 0.8698 | |
| 76 | Northwood University | 25700 | 75700 | 0.6609 | 2,045 | 1055 | 0.6451 | |
| 76 | Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | 25700 | 28900 | 0.1109 | 8,673 | 1095 | 0.9156 | |
| 78 | Minnesota State University Moorhead | 26000 | 28300 | 0.0809 | 3,375 | 1090 | 0.5885 | |
| 78 | West Virginia Wesleyan College | 26000 | 53800 | 0.5169 | 971 | 1030 | 0.9334 | |
| 80 | Stony Brook University | 26100 | 33200 | 0.2129 | 18,616 | 1410 | 0.4818 | |
| 81 | Loyola University Maryland | 26200 | 78800 | 0.6676 | 4,013 | 1329 | 0.6986 | |
| 82 | Bemidji State University | 26400 | 26400 | 0 | 3,751 | 1075 | 0.5598 | |
| 83 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg | 26500 | 50000 | 0.4697 | 4,047 | 1219 | 0.976 | |
| 84 | University of Akron Main Campus | 26600 | 28000 | 0.0499 | 11,691 | 1074 | 0.7722 | |
| 85 | Bowling Green State University-Main Campus | 26800 | 36800 | 0.2719 | 15,273 | 1115 | 0.8089 | |
| 85 | Colorado State University Pueblo | 26800 | 30100 | 0.1094 | 3,893 | 1015 | 0.9839 | |
| 87 | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | 26900 | 39800 | 0.3239 | 29,727 | 990 | 0.9229 | |
| 88 | Cleveland State University | 27000 | 38500 | 0.2985 | 9,418 | 1069 | 0.913 | |
| 89 | Wright State University-Main Campus | 27200 | 43300 | 0.3722 | 7,747 | 1073 | 0.9617 | |
| 90 | Rowan University | 27300 | 41300 | 0.3392 | 17,157 | 1204 | 0.7654 | |
| 91 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 27400 | 29900 | 0.0837 | 18,667 | 1090 | 0.9711 | |
| 92 | Bethune-Cookman University | 27500 | 32300 | 0.1484 | 2,739 | 910 | 0.8824 | |
| 93 | University of Nebraska at Omaha | 27800 | 27800 | 0 | 11,756 | 1124 | 0.8727 | |
| 94 | Central Connecticut State University | 28200 | 29500 | 0.044 | 9,463 | 1020 | 0.793 | |
| 95 | Wayne State University | 28400 | 46800 | 0.3934 | 16,390 | 1183 | 0.8359 | |
| 96 | University of Utah | 28700 | 32000 | 0.1028 | 29,335 | 1222 | 0.9015 | |
| 97 | University of Toledo | 29300 | 32600 | 0.1009 | 10,726 | 1134 | 0.8889 | |
| 98 | Morgan State University | 29400 | 41800 | 0.2966 | 9,027 | 965 | 0.8223 | |
| 99 | University of South Florida | 29500 | 36700 | 0.1961 | 39,093 | 1255 | 0.4071 | |
| 100 | California Lutheran University | 30100 | 109800 | 0.7261 | 2,160 | 1218 | 0.7631 | |
| 101 | Saint Xavier University | 30400 | 57200 | 0.4688 | 3,100 | 1050 | 0.843 | |
| 101 | Thomas Jefferson University | 30400 | 68700 | 0.5576 | 3,772 | 1255 | 0.8098 | |
| 103 | Grambling State University | 30500 | 35800 | 0.1482 | 4,313 | 950 | 0.4486 | |
| 103 | Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania | 30500 | 31800 | 0.0409 | 7,088 | 1100 | 0.7448 | |
| 103 | University of North Florida | 30500 | 30500 | 0 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 103 | University of Northwestern-St Paul | 30500 | 54600 | 0.4413 | 3,120 | 1193 | 0.3992 | |
| 107 | Towson University | 30600 | 39200 | 0.2196 | 16,361 | 1082 | 0.8057 | |
| 108 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 30800 | 36900 | 0.1662 | 5,687 | 1305 | 0.7863 | |
| 109 | Benedictine University | 30900 | 48900 | 0.3681 | 2,082 | 1124 | 0.9576 | |
| 110 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Mont Alto | 31200 | 44300 | 0.2955 | 586 | 1140 | 0.9577 | |
| 111 | Suffolk University | 31400 | 110800 | 0.7165 | 4,247 | 1209 | 0.8228 | |
| 112 | Hampton University | 31500 | 54800 | 0.4252 | 4,046 | 1005 | 0.6358 | |
| 112 | Westfield State University | 31500 | 41500 | 0.2412 | 3,868 | 1105 | 0.8671 | |
| 114 | Angelo State University | 31600 | 35400 | 0.1071 | 10,103 | 1045 | 0.7981 | |
| 115 | SUNY Buffalo State University | 32200 | 39900 | 0.1931 | 5,196 | 1050 | 0.8422 | |
| 116 | University of Scranton | 32400 | 78700 | 0.5879 | 3,689 | 1245 | 0.8006 | |
| 117 | University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 32800 | 69700 | 0.529 | 11,087 | 1326 | 0.7397 | |
| 118 | State University of New York at Oswego | 32900 | 40200 | 0.1817 | 5,293 | 1179 | 0.7989 | |
| 119 | SUNY Brockport | 33200 | 36500 | 0.0904 | 5,816 | 1195 | 0.7068 | |
| 120 | Tarleton State University | 33300 | 33300 | 0 | 17,556 | 1090 | 0.5386 | |
| 121 | Harding University | 33500 | 47800 | 0.299 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 122 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | 33600 | 34200 | 0.0175 | 31,845 | 1298 | 0.5651 | |
| 123 | Elizabethtown College | 33800 | 69900 | 0.5167 | 1,935 | 1214 | 0.8892 | |
| 124 | Salisbury University | 34000 | 41600 | 0.1827 | 6,477 | 1245 | 0.8826 | |
| 125 | Charleston Southern University | 34200 | 48400 | 0.295 | 3,126 | 1060 | 0.9646 | |
| 126 | George Washington University | 34300 | 81800 | 0.5808 | 11,495 | 1436 | 0.4713 | |
| 127 | SUNY at Fredonia | 34400 | 41000 | 0.161 | 2,771 | 1258 | 0.777 | |
| 128 | Lenoir-Rhyne University | 34500 | 62800 | 0.4506 | 1,495 | 1075 | 0.8761 | |
| 128 | Texas Southern University | 34500 | 42500 | 0.1883 | 6,844 | 915 | 0.9691 | |
| 130 | University of Alaska Fairbanks | 34900 | 63500 | 0.4503 | 6,209 | 1144 | 0.6424 | |
| 131 | Adelphi University | 35000 | 63300 | 0.4467 | 5,097 | 1241 | 0.7215 | |
| 132 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 35200 | 38900 | 0.095 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8142 | |
| 133 | Christopher Newport University | 35400 | 38700 | 0.0853 | 4,369 | 1189 | 0.8604 | |
| 134 | Bradley University | 35900 | 60000 | 0.402 | 3,258 | 1174 | 0.7459 | |
| 135 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 36300 | 53600 | 0.3229 | 32,041 | 1324 | 0.4358 | |
| 136 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Altoona | 37200 | 47900 | 0.2232 | 2,280 | 1224 | 0.9675 | |
| 137 | Frostburg State University | 38000 | 55400 | 0.3142 | 3,436 | 1095 | 0.907 | |
| 138 | Saint Michael's College | 39100 | 75600 | 0.4831 | 1,051 | 1280 | 0.8976 | |
| 139 | Drexel University | 40200 | 107600 | 0.6262 | 12,318 | 1354 | 0.699 | |
| 139 | Elmhurst University | 40200 | 69600 | 0.4222 | 3,170 | 1133 | 0.7501 | |
| 141 | Furman University | 40300 | 84600 | 0.5234 | 2,304 | 1372 | 0.4869 | |
| 141 | Immaculata University | 40300 | 60400 | 0.3328 | 1,889 | 1264 | 0.8656 | |
| 143 | McKendree University | 40600 | 52900 | 0.2324 | 1,757 | 1098 | 0.7172 | |
| 144 | Pace University | 40700 | 75500 | 0.461 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 145 | University of Illinois Chicago | 41500 | 51300 | 0.191 | 24,260 | 1174 | 0.7576 | |
| 146 | Mercy University | 41600 | 46400 | 0.1035 | 6,692 | 1135 | 0.8724 | |
| 147 | University of Mount Olive | 42100 | 50400 | 0.1645 | 1,944 | 1075 | 0.7575 | |
| 148 | Merrimack College | 43500 | 78800 | 0.4479 | 4,123 | 1124 | 0.6927 | |
| 148 | University of Maryland-College Park | 43500 | 68700 | 0.367 | 31,875 | 1456 | 0.4503 | |
| 150 | Wentworth Institute of Technology | 43800 | 103500 | 0.5766 | 4,182 | 1317 | 0.8783 | |
| 151 | Mercer University | 45700 | 65400 | 0.3015 | 4,719 | 1263 | 0.643 | |
| 152 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 45900 | 59900 | 0.2338 | 12,122 | 1283 | 0.8296 | |
| 153 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 46100 | 46600 | 0.0107 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 154 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 47100 | 59800 | 0.2121 | 37,985 | 1390 | 0.5815 | |
| 155 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 48600 | 61200 | 0.2057 | 26,490 | 1183 | 0.8863 | |
| 156 | DePaul University | 49100 | 66400 | 0.2604 | 14,338 | 1258 | 0.878 | |
| 157 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Schuylkill | 49900 | 61100 | 0.1833 | 653 | 1145 | 0.7972 | |
| 158 | Rutgers University-Newark | 50300 | 59900 | 0.1604 | 7,989 | 1159 | 0.7136 | |
| 159 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 50500 | 58800 | 0.1411 | 25,054 | 1225 | 0.7762 | |
| 160 | Indiana University-Indianapolis | 50600 | 52900 | 0.0433 | 14,834 | 1149 | 0.7803 | |
| 161 | University of Kentucky | 51800 | 74100 | 0.3002 | 25,535 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 162 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 54500 | 66200 | 0.1767 | 38,572 | 1455 | 0.3659 | |
| 163 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 58300 | 63500 | 0.0819 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 164 | Molloy University | 58500 | 62300 | 0.061 | 3,396 | 1188 | 0.6633 | |
| 165 | Clemson University | 61400 | 63700 | 0.036 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 166 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 63600 | 65000 | 0.0215 | 9,827 | 1329 | 0.6737 | |
| 167 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks | 65100 | 65100 | 0 | 1,709 | 1218 | 0.9653 | |
| 168 | College of Charleston | 69300 | 69300 | 0 | 10,596 | 1234 | 0.73 | |
| 169 | Fordham University | 73700 | 103900 | 0.2907 | 10,582 | 1406 | 0.5931 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.