2023 Best Value Math and Stats Schools in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Math and Stats Schools in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mathematics & Statistics is the 627th most popular major in the country with 436 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 71 mathematics and statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Math and Stats Schools in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mathematics and statistics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent mathematics and statistics programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the mathematics and statistics program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Math and Stats Schools in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Math and Stats Schools in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Mathematics & Statistics (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

1

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$16,646 Average Net Price

$56,204 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Math and Stats Schools in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s math and stats degrees to 28 students in 2020-2021.

Emory did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Mathematics & Statistics Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $16,646 for southeast region math and stats students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Emory.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of South Alabama
Mobile, Alabama

#2 in overall quality

$17,568 Average Net Price

$46,663 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Math and Stats Schools in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Alabama landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Mobile, Alabama, and it awarded 14 ’s math and stats degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at USA, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Mathematics & Statistics Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $17,568 for southeast region math and stats students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend USA.

Read more about Mathematics & Statistics at USA

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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