2024 Best Value Stats Schools in Maryland
2
Ranked Colleges
76
Degrees Awarded
$21,400
Avg Net Price*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Stats Schools in Maryland” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Statistics is the 85th most popular major in the country with 9,979 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, statistics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $62,014 and had an average of $20,584 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maryland, there were 76 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Stats Schools in Maryland” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in statistics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality statistics programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the statistics program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Stats Schools in Maryland” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Value Stats Schools in Maryland
The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland stats students.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Statistics in Maryland
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Stats Schools in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - Baltimore County landed the #1 spot on the list. UMBC is a fairly large school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 21 ’s stats degrees in 2020-2021.
UMBC also made our “Best Statistics Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $19,460 for Maryland Stats students per year to attend University of Maryland - Baltimore County.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Read more about Statistics at UMBC
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Stats Schools in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #2 spot on the list. Johns Hopkins University is a large school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 37 ’s stats degrees in 2020-2021.
Johns Hopkins did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Statistics Schools in Maryland” list. It costs about $23,428 for maryland stats students per year to attend Johns Hopkins.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, 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.
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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
- *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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