2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Cognitive Science is the 238th most popular major in the country with 2,768 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 101 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in cognitive science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree cognitive science students.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 32 degrees to qualified masters’s cognitive science students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. 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 8 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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- 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%.
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- *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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