2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 2,768 people earned their degree in cognitive science, making the major the 238th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 248 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in cognitive science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in cognitive science.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree cognitive science students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan Technological University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Houghton, Michigan is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s cognitive science degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, 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 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Michigan Tech Cognitive Science Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #2 spot on the list. Case Western is located in Cleveland, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s cognitive science degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Read full report on Cognitive Science at Case Western
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #3 spot on the list. Evanston, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s cognitive science degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Cognitive Science at Northwestern University
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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
- *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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