2024 Best Computational Science Schools in the Southeast Region
7Colleges in the Southeast Region
219Scientific Computing Degrees Awarded
Computational Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #380 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for computational science students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 219 degrees in computational science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of computational science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
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.
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Best Schools for Computational Science in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the scientific computing degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Scientific Computing
Vanderbilt University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in computational science. Located in the large city of Nashville, Vanderbilt is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #19 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Vanderbilt is a great university overall.
There were roughly 28 computational science students who graduated with this degree at Vanderbilt in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in computational science needs to look into Clemson University. Clemson is a very large public university located in the suburb of Clemson. A Best Colleges rank of #107 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Clemson is a great university overall.More information about a degree in computational science from Clemson University
University of Central Florida is a good option for students pursuing a degree in computational science. Located in the large suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 77 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were roughly 41 computational science students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat University of South Carolina - Beaufort if you want to pursue a degree in computational science. USCB is a small public university located in the fringe town of Bluffton. This university ranks 40th out of 44 colleges for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were approximately 15 computational science students who graduated with this degree at USCB in the most recent year we have data available.
UT Chattanooga is a large public university located in the medium-sized city of Chattanooga. This university ranks 16th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were about 3 computational science students who graduated with this degree at UT Chattanooga in the most recent year we have data available.
New College is a small public college located in the small city of Sarasota. This college ranks 54th out of 77 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were approximately 12 computational science students who graduated with this degree at New College in the most recent data year.
Located in the large suburb of Miami, FIU is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #183 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means FIU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 8 computational science students who graduated with this degree at FIU 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. 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.
