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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Other Computer & Information Sciences Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 1,887 people earned their degree in other computer and information sciences, making the major the 320th most popular in the United States.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 257 other computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 other computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Other Computer & Information Sciences Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other computer and information sciences. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in other computer and information sciences.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Other Computer & Information Sciences Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Other Computer & Information Sciences Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Computer & Information Sciences Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 27 masters’s other computer and information sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Other Computer & Information Sciences at Carnegie Mellon
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Computer & Information Sciences Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple University landed the #2 spot on the list. Temple University is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 123 masters’s other computer and information sciences degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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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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.