2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Computational and Applied Math Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,164 people earned their degree in computational and applied mathematics, making the major the 388th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 5 computational and applied mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 computational and applied mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in computational and applied mathematics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in computational and applied mathematics.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational & Applied Mathematics in the Plains States Region

1

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Rapid City, South Dakota, this small public school handed out 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s computational and applied math students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Computational & Applied Mathematics at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

2

Southwest Minnesota State University
Marshall, Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwest Minnesota State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Plains States Region. This medium-sized school is located in Marshall, Minnesota, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s computational and applied math degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Southwest Minnesota State University Computational & Applied Mathematics 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

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Steven G. Johnson.