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2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Great Lakes Region

8 Ranked Colleges
221 Degrees Awarded
$37,741 Avg Salary
Schools for a Bachelor's Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Cognitive Science is the 172nd most popular major in the country with 2,776 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, cognitive science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $39,216 and had an average of $16,566 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 248 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,741 and $21,610 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 221 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in cognitive science. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Great Lakes Region

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Beloit College
Beloit, Wisconsin

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Beloit College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Beloit, Wisconsin, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s cognitive science students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and it awarded 36 bachelors’s cognitive science degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Case Western Reserve University Cognitive Science Report

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University of Evansville
Evansville, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Evansville. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Evansville, Indiana, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s cognitive science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Cognitive Science at University of Evansville

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. U-M is a large public school situated in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It awarded 135 bachelors’s cognitive science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full U-M Cognitive Science Report

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Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marquette University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Marquette University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Marquette University Cognitive Science Report

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Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana

Indiana University - Bloomington ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Indiana University - Bloomington is a public institution located in Bloomington, Indiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, 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 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Cognitive Science at IU Bloomington

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #7. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large public school situated in Champaign, Illinois. It awarded 3 bachelors’s cognitive science degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 more about Cognitive Science at UIUC

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University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, Wisconsin

With a ranking of #8, University of Wisconsin - Stout did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Wisconsin - Stout is located in Menomonie, Wisconsin and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s cognitive science degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Cognitive Science at University of Wisconsin - Stout

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