2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,755 people earned their degree in other computer and information sciences, making the major the 262nd most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 626 other computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,590 and $5,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 205 other computer and information sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other computer and information sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other computer and information sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Computer & Information Sciences in the Southeast Region

1

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

$97,383 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Southeast Region. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 201 masters’s other computer science degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Virginia Tech Other Computer & Information Sciences Report

2

Lipscomb University
Nashville, Tennessee

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Computer Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lipscomb University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s other computer science students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Other Computer & Information Sciences at Lipscomb

• Most Focused Master’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.

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