Cognitive Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #117 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Cognitive Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 44 bachelor's degrees in cognitive science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to cognitive science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other cognitive science students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt cognitive science students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized cognitive science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for cognitive science students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Cognitive Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Cognitive Science in New York
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in cognitive science.
Top New York Schools for a Bachelor's in Cognitive Science
Vassar College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in cognitive science. Located in the large suburb of Poughkeepsie, Vassar is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the cognitive science program make an average of $35,926 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).