2025 Best Cognitive Science Schools in the Southwest Region
2Colleges in the Southwest Region
84Cognitive Science Degrees Awarded
$47,753Avg Early-Career Salary
When it comes to popularity, cognitive science sits in the middle of the road, ranking #172 out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of cognitive science. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 84 degrees in cognitive science annually.
The cognitive science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Cognitive Science Schools in the Southwest Region.
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Best Schools for Cognitive Science in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of cognitive science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Rice University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in cognitive science. Located in the city of Houston, Rice is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.
Students who receive their degree from the cognitive science program earn about $47,459 in the first couple years of their career.
It's difficult to beat The University of Texas at Dallas if you wish to pursue a degree in cognitive science. UT Dallas is a fairly large public university located in the city of Richardson.
Students who graduate with their degree from the cognitive science program report average early career wages of $44,752.
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).
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