2024 Best Computational Science Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
311Scientific Computing Degrees Awarded
A degree in computational science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #380 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for computational science students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 311 degrees in computational science to qualified students.
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 Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Computational Science in the Great Lakes Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the scientific computing degree levels they offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Scientific Computing
Every student who is interested in computational science needs to look into Indiana University - Bloomington. Located in the small city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 42 colleges for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were about 176 computational science students who graduated with this degree at IU Bloomington in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in computational science needs to look into University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Notre Dame. A Best Colleges rank of #20 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Notre Dame is a great university overall.
There were approximately 43 computational science students who graduated with this degree at Notre Dame in the most recent data year.
Michigan State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in computational science. Michigan State is a very large public university located in the small city of East Lansing. This university ranks 2nd out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were about 19 computational science students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent data year.
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Notes and References
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).
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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.
