by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Mathematics is the 26th most popular major in the country with 28,536 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Maryland, there were 714 general mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 55 general mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,978 and $45,714 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Maryland” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general mathematics. That schools that top this list have a program in general mathematics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Maryland”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Morgan State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Maryland. Morgan State is located in Baltimore, Maryland and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 masters’s mathematical sciences degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Maryland list. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 48 degrees to qualified masters’s mathematical sciences students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mathematical Sciences Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Maryland - College Park is a large school located in College Park, Maryland that handed out 4 masters’s mathematical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.
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