2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational & Applied Mathematics in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Computational & Applied Mathematics is the 388th most popular major in the country with 1,164 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 40 computational and applied mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 computational and applied mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in computational and applied mathematics. That schools that top this list have a program in computational and applied mathematics 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree computational and applied math students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational & Applied Mathematics in the Southwest Region

1

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southwest Region. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 6 masters’s computational and applied math degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Computational & Applied Mathematics at Rice

2

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southwest Region. SMU is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s computational and applied math degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Southern Methodist University Computational & Applied Mathematics Report

3

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southwest Region. University of Central Oklahoma is a fairly large public school situated in Edmond, Oklahoma. It awarded 0 masters’s computational and applied math degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Computational & Applied Mathematics at UCO

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational & Applied Mathematics

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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