Best Cognitive Science Master’s Degree Colleges in California

Unfortunately, there were no schools in California that made our Best Cognitive Science Master's Degree Schools in California list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Cognitive Science School for Your Master's Degree

The cognitive science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality cognitive science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to cognitive science students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of cognitive science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt cognitive science students go into to obtain their master'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 cognitive science related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for cognitive science students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for California

Regrettably , we do not have sufficient data to produce a ranking of the top quality colleges for cognitive science in California. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in California that both offer cognitive science and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Cognitive Science rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Cognitive Science ranking.

Best Cognitive Science Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Cognitive Science Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded

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Cognitive Science Related Rankings by Major

One of 51 majors within the Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies area of study, Cognitive Science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Cognitive Science Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Cognitive Science	16

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Dispute Resolution	183
Sustainability Science	162
Gerontology	139
Human Computer Interaction	136
Data Science	119
Nutrition Science	118
Data Analytics	107
Biological & Physical Science	88
Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution	74
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	73

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 Allan Ajifo. More about our data sources and methodologies.