2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Computer & Information Sciences in the Plains States Region

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Computer & Information Sciences is the 262nd most popular major in the country with 1,755 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, other computer and information sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $44,020 and had an average of $19,656 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 37 other computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,661 and $24,197 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 other computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other computer and information sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in other computer and information sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree other computer science students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Computer & Information Sciences in the Plains States Region

1

Southwestern College
Winfield, Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Plains States Region list. Winfield, Kansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other computer science degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Other Computer & Information Sciences at Southwestern College

2

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#22 overall quality in Plains States

$52,456 Average Early-Career Earnings

$38,630 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large private for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other computer science students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Other Computer & Information Sciences at Capella University

2

Hamline University
Saint Paul, Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hamline University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Plains States Region. Hamline University is a small school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota that handed out 0 bachelors’s other computer science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Other Computer & Information Sciences at Hamline

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Computer & Information Sciences

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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