2022 Best Vallue Math & CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k

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Mathematics & Computer Science is the 229th most popular major in the country with 1,134 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, mathematics and computer science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,850 and had an average of $21,473 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 10 mathematics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 mathematics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Vallue Math & CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mathematics and computer science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mathematics and computer science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the mathematics and computer science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Math & CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Math & CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Computer Science (Income Over $110k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Morningside College

Sioux City, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$21,337 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Morningside College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue Math & CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k. Morningside is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Sioux City, Iowa. It awarded 1 bachelors’s math and compsci degrees in 2019-2020.

Morningside also took the #2 spot in our “Best Mathematics & Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $21,337 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Math & CompSci students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Morningside.

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#2

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$26,869 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington University in St Louis. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Vallue Math & CompSci Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s math and compsci students in 2019-2020.

WUSTL not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Mathematics & Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $26,869 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Math & CompSci students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend WUSTL.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Computer Science (Income Over $110k)

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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