2022 Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland

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 Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Cognitive Science is the 260th most popular major in the country with 2,720 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maryland, there were 43 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,371 and $23,982 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great cognitive science programs and cost less that 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 cognitive science program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in Maryland

#1

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$29,342 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #1 spot on the list. Johns Hopkins University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 32 bachelors’s cognitive science degrees in 2019-2020.

Johns Hopkins did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Cognitive Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. The yearly cost to attend Johns Hopkins University is $29,342 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Cognitive Science students.

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 student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Allan Ajifo.

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