2025 Best Computational Science Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
214Computational Science Degrees Awarded
$92,458Avg Early-Career Salary
Computational Science isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #224 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Computational Science Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 214 degrees in computational science to qualified students.
The computational science program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Computational Science rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for computational science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Computational Science in the Southeast Region
The schools below may not offer all types of computational science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Computational Science
It is difficult to beat Vanderbilt University if you wish to pursue a degree in computational science. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Nashville. A Best Colleges rank of #18 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Vanderbilt is a great university overall.
There were roughly 29 computational science students who graduated with this degree at Vanderbilt in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat University of Georgia if you wish to pursue a degree in computational science. Located in the medium-sized city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #69 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UGA is a great university overall.More information about a degree in computational science from University of Georgia
University of Central Florida is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in computational science. UCF is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Orlando. This university ranks 10th out of 70 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were about 30 computational science students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the computational science program report average early career income of $90,724.
It is difficult to beat Florida International University if you wish to pursue a degree in computational science. FIU is a very large public university located in the suburb of Miami. This university ranks 13th out of 70 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were about 7 computational science students who graduated with this degree at FIU 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).
The computational science program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Computational Science rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for computational science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
