2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the New England 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 New England region, there were 170 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,242 and $16,800 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 cognitive science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in cognitive science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their cognitive science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree cognitive science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cognitive Science in the New England Region

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. MIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It awarded 4 masters’s cognitive science degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cognitive Science Report

2

Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

#2 overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cognitive Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #2 spot on the list. Brown is a private not-for-profit institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Cognitive Science at Brown University

• Most Focused Master’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.