2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,383 people earned their degree in computational science, making the major the 224th most popular in the United States. In , computational science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $69,024 and had an average of $27,480 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 42 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in computational science. That schools that top this list have a program in computational science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree computational science students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region list. Tufts is located in Medford, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s computational science degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Read more about Computational Science at Tufts
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine at Augusta. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region list. Located in Augusta, Maine, this small public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s computational science students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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%.
Full University of Maine at Augusta Computational Science Report
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References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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