2025 Best Computational Science Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
147Computational Science Degrees Awarded
$92,458Avg Early-Career Salary
Computational Science is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #224 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Computational Science Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 147 degrees in computational science annually.
Your choice of computational science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Computational Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Computational Science Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Computational Science in the Southwest Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the computational science degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Computational Science
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in computational science. UT Austin is a fairly large public university located in the city of Austin. A Best Colleges rank of #46 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UT Austin is a great university overall.
There were roughly 85 computational science students who graduated with this degree at UT Austin in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is a great choice for students interested in a degree in computational science. University of Oklahoma is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized suburb of Norman. This university ranks 1st out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were approximately 45 computational science students who graduated with this degree at University of Oklahoma in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat The University of Texas at El Paso if you want to pursue a degree in computational science. UTEP is a very large public university located in the large city of El Paso. This university ranks 49th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 14 computational science students who graduated with this degree at UTEP in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of computational science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Computational Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
