2022 Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2019-2020, 2,723 people earned their degree in cognitive science, making the major the 179th most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 104 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,950 and $20,120 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality cognitive science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the cognitive science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree cognitive science students.
Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Cognitive Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s cognitive science degrees in 2019-2020.
Vanderbilt also took the #1 spot in our “Best Cognitive Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Vanderbilt are $50,624, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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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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