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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 New Jersey.
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 New Jersey.
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 | California Institute of Technology | 3800 | 90300 | 0.9577 | 987 | 1557 | 0.0257 | |
| 2 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 6000 | 94100 | 0.9365 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 3 | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College | 7400 | 34500 | 0.785 | 16,086 | 1293 | 0.5117 | |
| 4 | Southeastern Oklahoma State University | 9000 | 30500 | 0.7048 | 3,207 | 1050 | 0.8034 | |
| 5 | New Mexico Highlands University | 10400 | 21500 | 0.5158 | 1,710 | 945 | 0.9481 | |
| 5 | Valdosta State University | 10400 | 24800 | 0.5817 | 7,206 | 1015 | 0.7214 | |
| 7 | Coppin State University | 10700 | 32800 | 0.6736 | 1,810 | 950 | 0.4956 | |
| 8 | Savannah State University | 11100 | 17400 | 0.3613 | 2,857 | 950 | 0.8368 | |
| 9 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 11700 | 27800 | 0.579 | 21,075 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
| 10 | Christopher Newport University | 11900 | 33900 | 0.6489 | 4,407 | 1209 | 0.8796 | |
| 11 | Texas A&M University-Commerce | 12000 | 24000 | 0.4999 | 9,666 | 1040 | 0.7498 | |
| 12 | Fairmont State University | 12200 | 21400 | 0.4304 | 3,060 | 1005 | 0.9924 | |
| 13 | Northern Kentucky University | 12400 | 25900 | 0.5221 | 10,163 | 1090 | 0.8307 | |
| 13 | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | 12400 | 27100 | 0.5416 | 28,674 | 980 | 0.9401 | |
| 15 | The University of Texas Permian Basin | 12700 | 37100 | 0.6572 | 4,218 | 1020 | 0.9307 | |
| 16 | University of North Florida | 13500 | 22400 | 0.3978 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 17 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 13700 | 32200 | 0.5744 | 39,083 | 1412 | 0.4517 | |
| 18 | Radford University | 14300 | 21900 | 0.347 | 6,161 | 1070 | 0.8953 | |
| 19 | University of Louisiana at Monroe | 14500 | 29300 | 0.5047 | 6,550 | 1140 | 0.7456 | |
| 19 | University of North Texas | 14500 | 25400 | 0.4298 | 34,458 | 1114 | 0.7223 | |
| 21 | University of Michigan-Flint | 14600 | 36600 | 0.601 | 5,011 | 1103 | 0.7047 | |
| 22 | Goshen College | 14700 | 55800 | 0.7363 | 780 | 995 | 0.8404 | |
| 23 | Concord University | 15100 | 31700 | 0.5234 | 1,609 | 990 | 0.9256 | |
| 24 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 15200 | 35700 | 0.5744 | 26,500 | 1183 | 0.8857 | |
| 24 | Dickinson State University | 15200 | 21600 | 0.2969 | 1,339 | 1005 | 0.3695 | |
| 26 | Northeastern University | 15300 | 89900 | 0.8302 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 26 | Wayne State College | 15300 | 26400 | 0.421 | 3,902 | 1075 | 1 | |
| 28 | Grand Valley State University | 15500 | 25300 | 0.3878 | 19,002 | 1233 | 0.8302 | |
| 28 | University of Nebraska at Omaha | 15500 | 23400 | 0.338 | 11,756 | 1124 | 0.8727 | |
| 28 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | 15500 | 24800 | 0.3744 | 30,187 | 1292 | 0.6015 | |
| 31 | Texas A&M University-Kingsville | 15600 | 25800 | 0.3959 | 5,187 | 1005 | 0.9229 | |
| 32 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Greater Allegheny | 16000 | 32400 | 0.5064 | 352 | 1180 | 0.9647 | |
| 33 | Southern University at New Orleans | 16100 | 31600 | 0.4903 | 1,773 | 885 | 0.6021 | |
| 34 | College of Staten Island CUNY | 16300 | 42300 | 0.6149 | 10,049 | 1005 | 0.9234 | |
| 35 | Emporia State University | 16700 | 27000 | 0.3817 | 2,396 | 1075 | 0.9771 | |
| 35 | Northwestern University | 16700 | 89500 | 0.8138 | 8,846 | 1513 | 0.0722 | |
| 37 | Frostburg State University | 17200 | 26900 | 0.36 | 2,619 | 1082 | 0.892 | |
| 38 | University of Houston-Victoria | 17600 | 34400 | 0.4887 | 2,707 | 930 | 0.7671 | |
| 39 | Morgan State University | 17700 | 19700 | 0.1017 | 9,027 | 965 | 0.8223 | |
| 40 | SUNY Brockport | 17800 | 26200 | 0.32 | 5,816 | 1195 | 0.7068 | |
| 41 | Angelo State University | 18400 | 23100 | 0.2035 | 9,779 | 1055 | 0.8301 | |
| 41 | Florida Memorial University | 18400 | 46100 | 0.601 | 1,299 | 0 | 0.7431 | |
| 41 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Schuylkill | 18400 | 32900 | 0.4413 | 624 | 1115 | 0.9664 | |
| 41 | Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania | 18400 | 25200 | 0.2698 | 6,853 | 1090 | 0.7147 | |
| 45 | State University of New York at Oswego | 18500 | 27500 | 0.3272 | 5,517 | 1174 | 0.8057 | |
| 46 | Westfield State University | 18800 | 32500 | 0.4221 | 3,868 | 1105 | 0.8671 | |
| 47 | San Jose State University | 18900 | 29900 | 0.3676 | 28,008 | 0 | 0.8461 | |
| 48 | The University of Texas at Arlington | 19100 | 27200 | 0.2981 | 31,112 | 1130 | 0.8129 | |
| 49 | Rutgers University-Newark | 19200 | 37900 | 0.4932 | 7,417 | 1214 | 0.7873 | |
| 49 | University of Illinois Chicago | 19200 | 30300 | 0.366 | 22,495 | 1252 | 0.7735 | |
| 51 | Wayne State University | 19300 | 32300 | 0.403 | 16,173 | 1174 | 0.7786 | |
| 52 | Cleveland State University | 19600 | 37300 | 0.4748 | 9,418 | 1005 | 0.913 | |
| 53 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 19800 | 36200 | 0.4532 | 36,588 | 1367 | 0.6535 | |
| 54 | Alabama State University | 20200 | 37400 | 0.4592 | 3,322 | 945 | 0.9564 | |
| 54 | Central College | 20200 | 36800 | 0.4509 | 1,084 | 1140 | 0.8617 | |
| 56 | University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown | 20600 | 30300 | 0.3198 | 1,809 | 1109 | 0.9484 | |
| 57 | Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | 20700 | 57800 | 0.6418 | 1,083 | 1205 | 0.9278 | |
| 58 | Tarleton State University | 21000 | 23000 | 0.087 | 15,130 | 0 | 0.5256 | |
| 59 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Mont Alto | 21300 | 33000 | 0.3542 | 581 | 1129 | 0.9821 | |
| 59 | Western Oregon University | 21300 | 24600 | 0.134 | 3,343 | 1120 | 0.9871 | |
| 61 | Luther College | 21400 | 71900 | 0.7025 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
| 62 | Bradley University | 21700 | 50900 | 0.5737 | 3,596 | 1174 | 0.7675 | |
| 63 | University of Arkansas at Little Rock | 21900 | 28000 | 0.2177 | 5,789 | 1115 | 0.5774 | |
| 64 | SUNY Buffalo State University | 22300 | 32000 | 0.303 | 5,205 | 1118 | 0.744 | |
| 65 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Hazleton | 22500 | 33800 | 0.334 | 502 | 1204 | 0.9641 | |
| 66 | Dakota State University | 23100 | 25600 | 0.0977 | 3,066 | 1192 | 0.8814 | |
| 67 | Averett University | 23200 | 57200 | 0.5947 | 1,180 | 1010 | 0.478 | |
| 67 | Robert Morris University | 23200 | 58000 | 0.5998 | 3,769 | 1180 | 0.9057 | |
| 69 | Syracuse University | 23500 | 83100 | 0.7172 | 15,958 | 1363 | 0.4611 | |
| 70 | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay | 23600 | 30300 | 0.2213 | 10,656 | 1075 | 0.7289 | |
| 71 | University of Kentucky | 23800 | 36000 | 0.3383 | 25,535 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 72 | Dominican University | 24000 | 56000 | 0.5714 | 2,690 | 1035 | 0.9032 | |
| 72 | Northwestern State University of Louisiana | 24000 | 37400 | 0.358 | 7,595 | 1075 | 0.9226 | |
| 74 | Notre Dame of Maryland University | 24100 | 62200 | 0.613 | 686 | 1030 | 0.8649 | |
| 75 | Bemidji State University | 24200 | 26400 | 0.0835 | 3,610 | 1110 | 0.9131 | |
| 76 | Minnesota State University Moorhead | 24400 | 26600 | 0.0828 | 3,413 | 1085 | 0.5295 | |
| 77 | Elmhurst University | 24500 | 67000 | 0.6346 | 3,170 | 1148 | 0.7357 | |
| 78 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 24700 | 32200 | 0.2328 | 10,200 | 1346 | 0.6507 | |
| 79 | Houghton University | 25000 | 35500 | 0.2956 | 939 | 1277 | 0.8866 | |
| 80 | Boston College | 25100 | 94600 | 0.7347 | 9,654 | 1490 | 0.1619 | |
| 81 | Bowling Green State University-Main Campus | 25600 | 36500 | 0.2983 | 14,783 | 1124 | 0.8096 | |
| 82 | Bethune-Cookman University | 25700 | 32700 | 0.2141 | 2,739 | 910 | 0.8824 | |
| 83 | Northwood University | 25800 | 54500 | 0.5271 | 1,989 | 1075 | 0.839 | |
| 83 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 25800 | 35700 | 0.2775 | 12,122 | 1283 | 0.8296 | |
| 85 | Fort Hays State University | 25900 | 35200 | 0.2645 | 10,206 | 1120 | 0.9177 | |
| 86 | Doane University | 26000 | 62800 | 0.5861 | 1,323 | 1125 | 0.9801 | |
| 87 | Indiana University-Indianapolis | 26200 | 28400 | 0.0776 | 14,504 | 1145 | 0.7637 | |
| 87 | Pennsylvania Western University | 26200 | 35600 | 0.2643 | 7,586 | 1070 | 0.9433 | |
| 89 | Norwich University | 26300 | 70900 | 0.6293 | 2,642 | 1209 | 0.7361 | |
| 90 | Georgia Southern University | 26400 | 26700 | 0.0112 | 23,618 | 1065 | 0.8789 | |
| 91 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Brandywine | 26600 | 35600 | 0.2526 | 1,236 | 1203 | 0.9811 | |
| 92 | Columbia College | 26700 | 41300 | 0.3538 | 876 | 1025 | 0.8878 | |
| 93 | University of North Georgia | 26900 | 35500 | 0.2422 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
| 94 | Kennesaw State University | 27000 | 27000 | 0 | 42,840 | 1120 | 0.6919 | |
| 94 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 27000 | 41900 | 0.3555 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 94 | Saint Xavier University | 27000 | 52000 | 0.4807 | 3,039 | 1125 | 0.8575 | |
| 97 | Ramapo College of New Jersey | 28000 | 34500 | 0.1885 | 5,444 | 1214 | 0.7064 | |
| 98 | George Fox University | 28300 | 67100 | 0.5787 | 3,401 | 1193 | 0.9351 | |
| 98 | Jacksonville State University | 28300 | 38200 | 0.259 | 8,663 | 1069 | 0.7769 | |
| 100 | Mercy University | 28400 | 44500 | 0.3619 | 6,775 | 1074 | 0.8584 | |
| 101 | University of Akron Main Campus | 28500 | 31500 | 0.0953 | 11,160 | 1069 | 0.5967 | |
| 101 | University of South Carolina-Upstate | 28500 | 39700 | 0.2822 | 4,478 | 1065 | 0.8132 | |
| 103 | Lincoln University | 28800 | 40900 | 0.2957 | 1,707 | 920 | 0 | |
| 103 | University of Utah | 28800 | 32000 | 0.1002 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 105 | Montclair State University | 28900 | 36300 | 0.204 | 18,712 | 1058 | 0.8789 | |
| 106 | Clemson University | 29100 | 37100 | 0.2156 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 106 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 29100 | 52900 | 0.4501 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 106 | West Virginia Wesleyan College | 29100 | 52800 | 0.4491 | 938 | 1090 | 0.951 | |
| 109 | Furman University | 29200 | 79600 | 0.6329 | 2,383 | 1359 | 0.4295 | |
| 109 | Wright State University-Main Campus | 29200 | 36500 | 0.2001 | 7,505 | 1059 | 0.9633 | |
| 111 | Lenoir-Rhyne University | 29500 | 51100 | 0.4229 | 1,477 | 1075 | 0.8068 | |
| 111 | University of South Alabama | 29500 | 35000 | 0.1572 | 9,241 | 1140 | 0.7096 | |
| 113 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 29900 | 30000 | 0.0033 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
| 114 | Albright College | 30400 | 48700 | 0.3758 | 1,328 | 1050 | 0.8615 | |
| 114 | Oklahoma Baptist University | 30400 | 54700 | 0.4429 | 1,409 | 1110 | 0.6327 | |
| 114 | SUNY at Fredonia | 30400 | 39600 | 0.2326 | 2,876 | 1193 | 0.792 | |
| 117 | University of Northwestern-St Paul | 30600 | 54600 | 0.4397 | 3,163 | 1165 | 0.9347 | |
| 118 | University of Toledo | 30800 | 42000 | 0.267 | 11,013 | 1159 | 0.9202 | |
| 119 | Benedictine University | 30900 | 48900 | 0.3681 | 1,972 | 1150 | 0.9523 | |
| 119 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 30900 | 36900 | 0.1639 | 5,552 | 1305 | 0.7255 | |
| 121 | Kean University | 31000 | 39600 | 0.2172 | 11,758 | 1035 | 0.7688 | |
| 122 | Washington Adventist University | 31300 | 37800 | 0.1721 | 605 | 950 | 0.4536 | |
| 123 | Thomas Jefferson University | 31600 | 67700 | 0.5331 | 3,772 | 1255 | 0.8098 | |
| 124 | Stockton University | 31700 | 44500 | 0.2878 | 7,565 | 1135 | 0.8894 | |
| 125 | CUNY Brooklyn College | 31800 | 31800 | 0 | 11,562 | 1110 | 0.5836 | |
| 126 | Hampton University | 32000 | 47000 | 0.3192 | 3,728 | 956 | 0.6225 | |
| 126 | Saint Michael's College | 32000 | 68400 | 0.5319 | 1,120 | 1240 | 0.8451 | |
| 128 | University of Scranton | 32400 | 78700 | 0.5881 | 3,613 | 1220 | 0.812 | |
| 129 | Rowan University | 32600 | 40500 | 0.1957 | 16,199 | 1214 | 0.783 | |
| 130 | Harding University | 32800 | 47000 | 0.3023 | 3,523 | 1193 | 0.3942 | |
| 130 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Beaver | 32800 | 40200 | 0.1842 | 482 | 1195 | 0.9565 | |
| 132 | California Lutheran University | 32900 | 65800 | 0.4996 | 2,297 | 1258 | 0.7567 | |
| 132 | Grambling State University | 32900 | 35300 | 0.068 | 4,279 | 965 | 0.2368 | |
| 134 | University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 33000 | 45200 | 0.27 | 10,767 | 1326 | 0.7243 | |
| 134 | Wilkes University | 33000 | 61900 | 0.4661 | 1,956 | 1153 | 0.9146 | |
| 136 | Elizabethtown College | 33600 | 54600 | 0.3849 | 1,903 | 1214 | 0.7787 | |
| 137 | College of Charleston | 33700 | 33700 | 0 | 10,880 | 1255 | 0.6003 | |
| 137 | George Washington University | 33700 | 81800 | 0.5882 | 11,677 | 1421 | 0.4709 | |
| 139 | LeTourneau University | 34000 | 54600 | 0.3772 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 140 | CUNY Graduate School and University Center | 34100 | 34100 | 0 | 3,237 | 0 | 0.3861 | |
| 141 | DePaul University | 34700 | 59100 | 0.4127 | 14,188 | 1218 | 0.7589 | |
| 141 | University of South Florida | 34700 | 34700 | 0 | 38,525 | 1239 | 0.4319 | |
| 143 | Coastal Carolina University | 34800 | 44700 | 0.2213 | 10,811 | 1145 | 0.7527 | |
| 144 | Adelphi University | 35100 | 63300 | 0.4454 | 5,325 | 1218 | 0.6591 | |
| 144 | City University of Seattle | 35100 | 45400 | 0.227 | 1,180 | 0 | 0.9025 | |
| 146 | Stevenson University | 35300 | 59900 | 0.4105 | 3,106 | 1100 | 0.7891 | |
| 147 | Colorado State University Pueblo | 35500 | 38700 | 0.0828 | 5,086 | 1000 | 0.9821 | |
| 148 | Towson University | 36000 | 45700 | 0.2122 | 16,264 | 1093 | 0.8198 | |
| 149 | Salisbury University | 36100 | 40900 | 0.1175 | 6,288 | 1250 | 0.8747 | |
| 150 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington | 36500 | 38100 | 0.042 | 2,884 | 1175 | 0.9677 | |
| 151 | Mercer University | 36600 | 60500 | 0.3951 | 4,690 | 1273 | 0.6889 | |
| 152 | East Carolina University | 37100 | 40100 | 0.0748 | 21,445 | 1120 | 0.8922 | |
| 153 | Immaculata University | 37300 | 47800 | 0.2194 | 1,652 | 1245 | 0.8578 | |
| 154 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 37700 | 38900 | 0.0309 | 1,919 | 1245 | 0.7844 | |
| 155 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro | 38400 | 38400 | 0 | 14,416 | 1205 | 0.8851 | |
| 156 | Suffolk University | 38600 | 73600 | 0.4758 | 4,324 | 1209 | 0.822 | |
| 157 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 38900 | 52900 | 0.2645 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 158 | Pace University | 39700 | 74100 | 0.464 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 159 | Stony Brook University | 39800 | 53000 | 0.2491 | 18,263 | 1395 | 0.4904 | |
| 160 | McKendree University | 40000 | 52200 | 0.2338 | 1,605 | 1098 | 0.6388 | |
| 161 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks | 40300 | 40300 | 0 | 1,880 | 1185 | 0.9867 | |
| 162 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg | 40500 | 40500 | 0 | 4,047 | 1219 | 0.976 | |
| 163 | Loyola University Maryland | 42000 | 78800 | 0.4671 | 3,881 | 1309 | 0.7549 | |
| 163 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42000 | 54900 | 0.2352 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 165 | University of Maryland-College Park | 42300 | 52900 | 0.2004 | 31,133 | 1456 | 0.448 | |
| 166 | University of California-Riverside | 43100 | 66400 | 0.3508 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 167 | Merrimack College | 43500 | 78800 | 0.4481 | 4,199 | 1115 | 0.7361 | |
| 168 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 43800 | 57100 | 0.2315 | 23,351 | 1239 | 0.766 | |
| 169 | CUNY Lehman College | 44000 | 45800 | 0.0393 | 11,217 | 1020 | 0.4601 | |
| 170 | James Madison University | 46400 | 46400 | 0 | 21,112 | 1260 | 0.7151 | |
| 171 | Wentworth Institute of Technology | 48000 | 56200 | 0.1458 | 3,965 | 1229 | 0.9121 | |
| 172 | University of Mount Olive | 48200 | 50400 | 0.0438 | 1,937 | 945 | 0.7775 | |
| 173 | Molloy University | 48300 | 62300 | 0.2249 | 3,240 | 1199 | 0.8174 | |
| 174 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 49800 | 52300 | 0.0478 | 21,210 | 1171 | 0.9232 | |
| 175 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 50900 | 84200 | 0.3956 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 176 | Drexel University | 51200 | 82600 | 0.38 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 177 | University of Colorado Boulder | 51500 | 56300 | 0.0852 | 32,100 | 1290 | 0.8115 | |
| 178 | Fordham University | 52200 | 94600 | 0.4484 | 10,307 | 1415 | 0.5628 | |
| 179 | Thiel College | 66600 | 69100 | 0.0362 | 831 | 1065 | 0.7189 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.