2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational & Applied Mathematics in the Southeast Region

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 171 computational and applied mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 computational and applied mathematics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in computational and applied mathematics. To top this list, a school must have a successful computational and applied mathematics program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational & Applied Mathematics in the Southeast Region

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Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified masters’s computational and applied math students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, 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 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Computational & Applied Mathematics at Virginia Tech

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Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Old Dominion University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Computational and Applied Math Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. Old Dominion University is a public institution located in Norfolk, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Popular 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

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