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2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southeast Region

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 101 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,726 and $17,626 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Southeast Region

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Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the Southeast Region list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 1 doctorate’s cognitive science degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

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