2022 Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Southeast region, there were 164 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent computational science programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree scientific computing students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Southeast Region

#1

University of South Carolina - Beaufort

Bluffton, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$16,719 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Carolina - Beaufort. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. USCB is a small school located in Bluffton, South Carolina that handed out 17 bachelors’s scientific computing degrees in 2019-2020.

USCB also made our “Best Computational Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $16,719 for southeast region bachelor’s degree scientific computing students per year to attend USCB.

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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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