2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the Southeast Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,413 people earned their degree in data science, making the major the 282nd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 450 data science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 127 data science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in data science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their data science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree data science students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Data Science in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the Southeast Region list. UK is a large public school situated in Lexington, Kentucky. It awarded 4 masters’s data science degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Daytona Beach, Florida, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified masters’s data science students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Data Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Christian Brothers University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s data science students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Notes and References
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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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.
