2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major
9
Ranked Colleges
1,322
Degrees Awarded
$31,100
Avg Cost*
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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Learning Sciences is the 337th most popular major in the country with 1,541 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1,322 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in learning sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in learning 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 Learning Sciences Major
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major”.
Top 9 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Governors University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major list. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s learning sciences degrees to 1,189 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 full report on Learning Sciences at WGU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 77 bachelors’s learning sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Read more about Learning Sciences at University of Arizona
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Point Park University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major list. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s learning sciences degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Point Park University Learning Sciences Report
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #5 spot on the list. Northwestern University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Evanston, Illinois. It awarded 8 bachelors’s learning sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 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 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Learning Sciences at Northwestern University
Purdue University - Main Campus came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major ranking. Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, this large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s learning sciences students 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 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Purdue Learning Sciences Report
The University of Alabama landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major ranking. UA is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s learning sciences degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Learning Sciences at The University of Alabama
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major ranking. This large school is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s learning sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Learning Sciences at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Western Illinois University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major ranking, coming in at #7. Macomb, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s learning sciences degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
Full WIU Learning Sciences Report
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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
- *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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