2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computer Programming in Louisiana

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Louisiana” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Computer Programming is the 108th most popular major in the country with 11,939 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, computer programming graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,629 and had an average of $27,450 in loans still to pay off.

Across Louisiana, there were 77 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,488 and $43,727 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,566 and $28,067 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in computer programming. That schools that top this list have a program in computer programming in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana bachelor’s degree programming students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computer Programming in Louisiana

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Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 overall quality in Louisiana

$52,151 Average Early-Career Earnings

$43,523 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #1 spot on the list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s programming degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 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 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Tulane University of Louisiana Computer Programming Report

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Herzing University - Kenner
Kenner, Louisiana

#6 overall quality in Louisiana

$53,952 Average Early-Career Earnings

$39,310 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Herzing University - Kenner landed the #2 spot on the list. Herzing University - Kenner is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Kenner, Louisiana. It awarded 1 bachelors’s programming degrees in 2020-2021.

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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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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