2022 Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,342 and $136,270 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.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Doctorate in the Far Western US 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 Doctorate in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree scientific computing students.

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

#1

Chapman University

Orange, California

#1 in overall quality

$35,105 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Chapman University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region. Chapman is a medium-sized school located in Orange, California that handed out 10 doctorate’s scientific computing degrees in 2019-2020.

Chapman also took the #1 spot in our “Best Computational Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Chapman are $35,105, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Computational Science at Chapman University

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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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