2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Statistics in District of Columbia

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Mathematics & Statistics is the 17th most popular major in the country with 52,396 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, mathematics and statistics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $49,845 and had an average of $21,658 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 469 mathematics and statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,347 and $21,317 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 mathematics and statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,283 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in mathematics and statistics. That schools that top this list have a program in mathematics and statistics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Statistics in District of Columbia

1

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics Major in District of Columbia list. GWU is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 doctorate’s mathematics and statistics degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Read full report on Mathematics & Statistics at GWU

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Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #2 spot on the list. Howard University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Howard Mathematics & Statistics Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Statistics in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Statistics

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.

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