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 the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 66 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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on cognitive science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of cognitive science students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for cognitive science to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized cognitive science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges 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 the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Cognitive Science in the Southwest Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in cognitive science.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Cognitive Science
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in cognitive science has to check out Rice University. Rice is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Houston.
After graduation, cognitive science bachelor's recipients typically earn about $42,585 in their early careers.
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).