2023 Most Popular Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Cognitive Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.

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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Cognitive Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in cognitive science. To top this list, a school must have a successful cognitive science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Cognitive Science Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region cognitive science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Cognitive Science in the Southwest Region

1

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

$64,867 Average Early-Career Earnings

$11,733 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Cognitive Science Major in the Southwest Region. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s cognitive science degrees to 43 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Rice Cognitive Science Report

2

The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas

#21 overall quality in Southwest

$51,037 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,061 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended 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. UT Dallas is located in Richardson, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 36 ’s cognitive science degrees to qualified students.

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%.

Read more about Cognitive Science at The University of Texas at Dallas

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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

• *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.