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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the New England 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 New England region, there were 98 other computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,625 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 other computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in other computer and information sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other computer and information sciences.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree other computer science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Quinnipiac University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the New England Region list. Hamden, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s other computer science degrees to 35 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
Full Quinnipiac Other Computer & Information Sciences Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New England Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. New England Tech is located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 masters’s other computer science degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
Read more about Other Computer & Information Sciences at New England Institute of Technology
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Merrimack College landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in North Andover, Massachusetts, and it awarded 1 masters’s other computer science degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.
Read more about Other Computer & Information Sciences at Merrimack
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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.
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