2024 Best Cognitive Science Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
162Cognitive Science Degrees Awarded
Cognitive Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #238 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Cognitive Science Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 162 degrees in cognitive science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of cognitive science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Cognitive Science School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Cognitive Science in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of cognitive science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top New England Region Schools in Cognitive Science
Every student who is interested in cognitive science needs to take a look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were roughly 34 cognitive science students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in cognitive science needs to look into Yale University. Located in the city of New Haven, Yale is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 28 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 38 cognitive science students who graduated with this degree at Yale in the most recent data year.
Tufts University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in cognitive science. Tufts is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Medford. This university ranks 4th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 43 cognitive science students who graduated with this degree at Tufts in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of cognitive science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Cognitive Science School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
