2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Computational Science is the 460th most popular major in the country with 1,184 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 77 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the computational science program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Far Western US Region

#1

Washington State University

Pullman, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$16,358 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Pullman, Washington, this large public school handed out 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s scientific computing students in 2019-2020.

Wazzu not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Computational Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Washington State University is $16,358 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Scientific Computing students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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

• *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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