Best Computer Software & Applications Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Computer Software & Applications Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to computer software & applications students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other computer software & applications students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt computer software & applications students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized computer software & applications related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for computer software & applications students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

On account of lacking data, we could not show you the computer software & applications quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer computer software & applications and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Computer Software & Applications by Region

View the Best Computer Software & Applications Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Computer Software

Computer Software & Applications is one of 10 different types of Computer & Information Sciences programs to choose from.

Computer Software Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Other Computer Software & Media Applications	10
Web & Multimedia Design	2
Modeling, Virtual Environments & Simulation	2

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Computer Science	1,478
Computer Information Systems	1,068
Information Science	186
Information Technology	117
Other Computer & Information Sciences	17
Data Processing	7
Computer Systems Networking	3
Computer Systems Analysis	2

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 Negative Space. More about our data sources and methodologies.