2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 82 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,625 and $10,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in cognitive science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in cognitive science.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree cognitive science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Southwest Region

1

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

$42,585 Average Early-Career Earnings

$10,250 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southwest Region list. Rice is a private not-for-profit institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 43 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Cognitive Science at Rice

2

The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas

#21 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Dallas landed the #2 spot on the list. The University of Texas at Dallas is a large public school situated in Richardson, Texas. It awarded 23 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 90%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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%.

Full UT Dallas Cognitive Science Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science

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

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Allan Ajifo.