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2022 Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

4 Ranked Colleges
175 Degrees Awarded
$23,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Cognitive Science is the 179th most popular major in the country with 2,723 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, cognitive science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $35,188 and had an average of $19,253 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 188 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $18,938 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 175 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in cognitive science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality cognitive science programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Indiana University - Bloomington

Bloomington, Indiana
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Bloomington, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s cognitive science degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

IU Bloomington also took the #3 spot in our “Best Cognitive Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Indiana University - Bloomington is $13,253 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree cognitive science students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full IU Bloomington Cognitive Science Report

#2

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Marquette University landed the #2 spot on the list. Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s cognitive science degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Marquette, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Cognitive Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Marquette is $29,756 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree cognitive science students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Full Marquette Cognitive Science Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this large public school awarded 75 degrees to qualified bachelors’s cognitive science students in 2019-2020.

U-M also made our “Best Cognitive Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend U-M is $15,336 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree cognitive science students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Cognitive Science at U-M

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Case Western Reserve University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Case Western Reserve University is a fairly large school located in Cleveland, Ohio that handed out 52 bachelors’s cognitive science degrees in 2019-2020.

Case Western not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Cognitive Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Case Western is $35,428 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Cognitive Science students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Case Western Reserve University Cognitive Science Report

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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.

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