2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,184 people earned their degree in computational science, making the major the 460th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 19 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great computational science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the computational science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree scientific computing students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region

#1

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$5,267 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Tufts University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s scientific computing students in 2019-2020.

Tufts did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Computational Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $5,267 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Scientific Computing students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Tufts.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Computational Science at Tufts

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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