2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer Programming in the Middle Atlantic Region

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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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 777 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,415 and $29,033 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in computer programming. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their computer programming program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer Programming in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marist College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Poughkeepsie, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 15 diplomas to qualified masters’s programming students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Computer Programming at Marist

2

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#11 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - College Park. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Programming Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. University of Maryland - College Park is a public institution located in College Park, Maryland. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Computer Programming at UMCP

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer Programming

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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